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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES

MARK OF ROBERT AND SAMUEL HENNELL, LONDON, 1808

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES
MARK OF ROBERT AND SAMUEL HENNELL, LONDON, 1808
Each shaped oval, with shell and anthemion gadrooned border, engraved twice with a coat-of-arms, each marked underneath
17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) long
140 oz. 18 dwt. (4,382 gr.)
The arms are those of Timins impaling Anderson, for John Famm Timins (1767-1843) and his wife Elizabeth (d.1862), daughter of Robert Anderson, a Captain in the Honourable East India Company, whom he married in 1808.
Provenance
John Famm Timins (1767 - 1843).
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Lot Essay

John Famm Timins of the City of London was Commander in the Service of the Honourable East India Company. He was granted his arms on 25 October 1802, together with the other descendants of his father Thomas Timins, late a Major in His Majesty's Marine Corps. He was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire from 1813. He married on 5 May 1808, Elizabeth, a descendant of John Anderson of Downhill who had registered arms in Lord Lyon's Office, Edinburgh, between 1672 and 1677. They had several children including the Rev. John Henry Timins (1813-1897), who in 1883 at the South Eastern Assizes at Maidstone was acquitted of poisoning Sarah Ann Wright, aged 16, by negligently administering to her a fatal dose of oil of almonds. John Timins died 1 July, 1843 at Hilfield, Hertfordshire, aged 76, and his wife Elizabeth died 5 May 1862.

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