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A GEORGE I IRISH SILVER TANKARD
MARK OF JOSEPH WALKER, DUBLIN, 1715
Tapering cylindrical with slightly spreading foot, hinged domed cover and foliate scroll thumbpiece, the scroll handle with beaded rat-tail, engraved with a coat-of-arms and underneath with initials 'F' over 'BM', marked near rim, inside cover and on handle, engraved underneath with scratch weight '58-5'
10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) high
56 oz. 17 dwt. (1,768 gr.)
The arms are those of Fallon impaling Irwin, for Bryan Fallon of Runnimead [Runnamoat], co. Galway and his wife Mary, daughter of Christopher Irwin of Oran, co. Roscommon, whom he married in 1703.
Provenance
Anonymous sale [Oclee & Son]; Christie's, London, 6 May 1953, lot 126.
Mrs Pamela J. Combemale, of New York City; Christie's, London, 20 March 1963, lot 93.
with How of Edinburgh, St. James's Street, London.

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