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A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER MAKER'S MARK OF EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1756

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A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER MAKER'S MARK OF EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1756

Shaped circular, on four lion mask feet, the gadrooned rim with acanthus at intervals, engraved with a coat-of-arms within rococo cartouche, marked on reverse
22¼in. (56.5cm.) diameter; 132oz. (4117gr.)

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The arms are those of Fane impaling those of Luther, with a mark of cadency for a third son, as borne by Henry Fane of Wormsley, Oxfordshire, who was MP for Lyme Regis from 1757 to 1777. He married, as his third wife, Charlotte, sister of John Luther, of Myles's, Essex, in 1748. He died in 1777.