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MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1849
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A VICTORIAN SILVER SOUP TUREEN COVER AND LINER
MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1849
Shaped oval and on four openwork branch and flower feet, the body and cover with similar handles, with a shell and gadrooned rim, the conforming liner with scroll handles, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms, the cover and liner each engraved with a crest, marked under base, inside cover and on liner, the base stamped 'HUNT & MORTIMER LATE STORR, MORTIMER AND HUNT' and pattern number 2428
16½ in. (42 cm.) long
148 oz. (4,597 gr.)
the arms are those of Humberston impaling Hughes for Philip Stapleton Humberston of Chester and his wife Elizabeth Henrietta, third daughter of Hugh Hughes, brother of William, first Baron Dinorben (1767-1852), whom he married in 1840. Philip Stapleton Humberston was M.P. for Chester in 1859 and founding president, with Earl Grosvenor, of the Grosvenor Club in 1866. He was also a Major in the local volunteers
MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1849
Shaped oval and on four openwork branch and flower feet, the body and cover with similar handles, with a shell and gadrooned rim, the conforming liner with scroll handles, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms, the cover and liner each engraved with a crest, marked under base, inside cover and on liner, the base stamped 'HUNT & MORTIMER LATE STORR, MORTIMER AND HUNT' and pattern number 2428
16½ in. (42 cm.) long
148 oz. (4,597 gr.)
the arms are those of Humberston impaling Hughes for Philip Stapleton Humberston of Chester and his wife Elizabeth Henrietta, third daughter of Hugh Hughes, brother of William, first Baron Dinorben (1767-1852), whom he married in 1840. Philip Stapleton Humberston was M.P. for Chester in 1859 and founding president, with Earl Grosvenor, of the Grosvenor Club in 1866. He was also a Major in the local volunteers
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