Lot 181
181
Property from the Collection of CHRISTOPHER HORNE, Toronto, sold by COOPERS & LYBRAND LIMITED as Court-appointed receivers
A PAIR OF EDWARD VII SILVER FRAMES

Details
A PAIR OF EDWARD VII SILVER FRAMES
MAKER'S MARK OF ELKINGTON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1901

Each on two foliate scroll feet and flanked by two tapering fluted columns entwined with laurel, the borders elaborately chased with roses, shamrocks and thistles and surmounted by a shaped stiff leaf cresting enclosing oval crowned oval wreaths, one enclosing the Prince of Wales insignia and the Order of the Garter, the other with the cypher VM, the brass back-plates engraved Marion Lawton Bushnell and Elkington, London, marked on bases--18in. (45.7cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

George Frederick Ernest Albert, second but eldest surviving son of Edward VII, was created Prince of Wales on November 9, 1901, six months after the accession of his father as King. He had married in 1893 his cousin Princess Victoria Mary, daughter of the Duke of Teck. He ascended the throne May 6, 1910 and died January 20, 1936. Queen Mary died in 1953.

An identical pair of frames was sold by Christie's South Kensington, February 21, 1995, lot 195