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A GEORGE II SILVER BREAD BASKET
maker's mark of Samuel Herbert and Company, London, 1754
Shaped-oval and on spreading foot, the foot and sides pierecd with latticework and with gadrooned and shell borders and with detachable swing handle applied with a rococo cartouche engraved with a crest, the basket engraved with a coat-of-arms and engraved beneath the base with later inscription, marked on reverse - 14½in. (37cm.) long
44ozs. (1,396grs.)
The inscription reads 'E Dono B. Cust Baronetti Augst 31o 1775. The arms are those of Cust impaling another
maker's mark of Samuel Herbert and Company, London, 1754
Shaped-oval and on spreading foot, the foot and sides pierecd with latticework and with gadrooned and shell borders and with detachable swing handle applied with a rococo cartouche engraved with a crest, the basket engraved with a coat-of-arms and engraved beneath the base with later inscription, marked on reverse - 14½in. (37cm.) long
44ozs. (1,396grs.)
The inscription reads 'E Dono B. Cust Baronetti Augst 31o 1775. The arms are those of Cust impaling another