A late Victorian silver large shaped oblong ink stand in the early 19th Century taste, on floral and foliate-capped lion's paw feet and with an applied gadroon, shell and foliate border, moulded with two pen rests and fitted with two silver-topped cut glass inkwells, each engraved with a crest, and with a central wafer box with presentation inscription and taperstick with conical snuffer and loop handle, Messrs. Barnard, London 1896 - 13in, 56oz. free, incomplete. X32401