MARK OF CHARLES STUART HARRIS, LONDON, 1890

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A VICTORIAN SILVER SALVER
MARK OF CHARLES STUART HARRIS, LONDON, 1890
Circular and on three ball and claw feet, with a gadrooned rim, engraved with an inscription below a Royal crown on the front, the back engraved with names, marked on back, the back further stamped 'CARRINGTON & CO. 130 REGENT ST. LONDON'
10 7/8 in. (27.5 cm.) diam.
25 oz. (770 gr.)
The inscription reads 'PRESENTED TO HER HIGHNESS Princess Louise of Schleswig Holstein ON HER MARRIAGE BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BEEHIVE'

Provenance

Presented to Princess Marie-Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872-1956), youngest child of Prince Christian Schleswig-Holstein (1831-1917) and his wife Princess Helena, (1846-1926) 3rd daugher of Queen Victoria, on the occasion of her marriage to Prince Aribert of Anhalt (1864-1933).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The Beehive was a school for young ladies in Windsor run by Mrs Mariana Margaret Browning and daughter Mariana Alice. Mary Collier published a study of the school, The Beehive, 1876-1964: A tribute to the founder Mariana Alice Browning and to her helpers and successors, in 1965.

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