A VICTORIAN SILVER DINNER-SERVICE
A VICTORIAN SILVER DINNER-SERVICE

MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT AND MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1839, 1840, 1841 AND 1842

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A VICTORIAN SILVER DINNER-SERVICE
MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT AND MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1839, 1840, 1841 AND 1842
Each piece with ribbon-tied reeded and foliage-cast border, engraved with a coat-of-arms, comprising: seven meat-dishes, further later engraved with a coat-of-arms below a coronet and with a pair of Old Sheffield plate dish-covers, with silver finials, one cast as a melon and foliage, the other cast as peas and foliage
the meat-dishes graduating from 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.) to 23 ¼ in. (59 cm.) wide
A pair of entree-dishes and covers, the covers lobed and with cast melon and foliage finial, one finial apparently unmarked
the dishes 11 1/8 in. (28 cm.) diam.
weight of silver 570 oz. 8 dwt. (17,740 gr.)
The arms are those of Holford quartering Stayner, Nutt and Lade, for Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892) of Westonbirt, co. Gloucester. He succeeded his father in 1839 and married Mary-Ann, daughter of General James Lindsay of Balcarres, co. Fife, in 1854. He rebuilt the family seat and created the now world famous arboretum.

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