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MAKER'S MARK OF CHARLES AND GEORGE ASPREY, LONDON, 1897
Details
A late Victorian five-piece silver
mounted shagreen desk set
Maker's mark of Charles and George Asprey, London, 1897
Comprising an oblong stationery box with curved front, an oblong blotter, a glass inkwell on a spreading oval base and a pair of candlesticks, each with leaf borders and the stationery box and the blotter with leaf-capped monogram with crown above, fully marked, the shagreen stamped LEUCHARS & SON 38 & 39 PICCADILLY LONDON
the box 8.7/8in. (23cm.) high (5)
mounted shagreen desk set
Maker's mark of Charles and George Asprey, London, 1897
Comprising an oblong stationery box with curved front, an oblong blotter, a glass inkwell on a spreading oval base and a pair of candlesticks, each with leaf borders and the stationery box and the blotter with leaf-capped monogram with crown above, fully marked, the shagreen stamped LEUCHARS & SON 38 & 39 PICCADILLY LONDON
the box 8.7/8in. (23cm.) high (5)
Provenance
Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg and Schwerin, (1879-1952) and thence by descent