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A pair of Victorian silver-gilt beakers
of tapering circular form, each bright-cut with ferns and engraved with verses: "We kiss the lips we once have kissed, the wax light groweth dimmer, and softly through the various mist our college friendships glimmer. A kind mistress and a pleasant home where kind hearts greet us whenso'er we come.", each also engraved with a name and date June 1887, in a plush and satin-lined fitted case, Thomas Smiley, London 1875, the interior of the lid gilt with a retailer's name and address: "Payne & Co., Goldsmiths to the Queen, 21, Old Bond Street, Bath" - 3½in. (9cm.), 6.25oz. (2)
of tapering circular form, each bright-cut with ferns and engraved with verses: "We kiss the lips we once have kissed, the wax light groweth dimmer, and softly through the various mist our college friendships glimmer. A kind mistress and a pleasant home where kind hearts greet us whenso'er we come.", each also engraved with a name and date June 1887, in a plush and satin-lined fitted case, Thomas Smiley, London 1875, the interior of the lid gilt with a retailer's name and address: "Payne & Co., Goldsmiths to the Queen, 21, Old Bond Street, Bath" - 3½in. (9cm.), 6.25oz. (2)