A GEORGE III SILVER TRAY

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A GEORGE III SILVER TRAY
MAKER'S MARK OF ROBERT SHARP, LONDON, 1791

Oval, with reeded borders and leaf-clad handles, on four scroll supports, pierced with foliate scrolls and paterae, the center engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked on reverse--23¼in.(59cm.) long
(69oz., 2150gr.)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Pinney quarterly with those of Pretor and impaling those Dickinson, as borne by John Frederick Pinney of Somerton Erleigh, co. Somerset, born in 1773. He married Frances, only daughter of William Dickinson and died in 1845.