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MARK OF REID AND SON, NEWCASTLE, 1828
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A GEORGE IV SILVER TROWEL
MARK OF REID AND SON, NEWCASTLE, 1828
The blade tapering and engraved with a plan of Seaham Harbour, the back engraved with two coats-of-arms accolé and below a marquess’ coronet, with octagonal turned coal handle with an openwork palmette ferrule and a finial cast as foliage and an acorn, with drop suspension ring, marked on blade
15.3/4 in. (40 cm.) long
The arms are those of Vane quartering Stewart accolé with Vane quartering Stewart with Vane in pretence for Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854) and his second wife Lady Frances Anne Vane-Tempest, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, who he married in 1819. Lord Londonderry took the surname of Vane, by royal licence, and used his new bride's immense wealth to acquire the Seaham Hall estate in County Durham with a view to developing the coal fields there.
The inscription reads ‘This Trowel Presented to the Most Honourable Charles William Vane Stewart Marquess of Londonderry by John Buddle on Laying The Foundation Stone of the North Pier of Seaham Harbour This 28th Day of November 1828.'
MARK OF REID AND SON, NEWCASTLE, 1828
The blade tapering and engraved with a plan of Seaham Harbour, the back engraved with two coats-of-arms accolé and below a marquess’ coronet, with octagonal turned coal handle with an openwork palmette ferrule and a finial cast as foliage and an acorn, with drop suspension ring, marked on blade
15.3/4 in. (40 cm.) long
The arms are those of Vane quartering Stewart accolé with Vane quartering Stewart with Vane in pretence for Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854) and his second wife Lady Frances Anne Vane-Tempest, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, who he married in 1819. Lord Londonderry took the surname of Vane, by royal licence, and used his new bride's immense wealth to acquire the Seaham Hall estate in County Durham with a view to developing the coal fields there.
The inscription reads ‘This Trowel Presented to the Most Honourable Charles William Vane Stewart Marquess of Londonderry by John Buddle on Laying The Foundation Stone of the North Pier of Seaham Harbour This 28th Day of November 1828.'
Literature
Wynyard Park inventory, 1886, vol. ii, p. 385, monumental room, case no. 12 ‘Silver trowel with ebony handle with which the first stone of Seaham Harbour was laid November 28th 1828’.
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