A SILVER PLATED ELECTROTYPE OF THE MILTON SHIELD, after the silver original maker's mark of Morel-Ladeuil for Elkington & Co., 1866, oval, decorated with scenes from Milton's Paradise Lost, the central panel depicting Adam and Eve, flanked by kidney form panels one of victorious heavenly angels, the other with defeated rebel angels in hell, topped by God the Father, and terminating in archangel Michael defeating Satan, the upper half enclosed by astrological signs headed by angels, the lower with flowering foliage centering Death and Time, with corded border, mounted on wood oval--39in. (99cm.) long