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A REGENCY SILVER-GILT COIN-SET TANKARD
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1816
Tapering cylindrical, on circular base, the body set overall with antique coins, with leaf-clad spout and tubular scroll handle with laurel, the hinged cover with fluting and ring thumbpiece with guilloche and set with a silver commemorative medal, the obverse with profile of George III and with KING GEORGE III ASCENDED THE BRITISH THRONE, OCT 25 1760. NATIONAL JUBILEE, OCT. 25, 1809., the reverse with a winged figure with allegories of time and with 1760 GEORGE THE III REIGNS 1809 and LONG LIVE THE KING, signed P. WYON. F, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms, crest and motto within an asymmetrical foliate scroll and rocaille cartouche, the cover engraved with an Earl's coronet and a monogram, marked on base and cover and stamped RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLAE REGENTIS BRITANNIAS LONDINI FECERUNT on base
10in. (25.4cm.) high
(74oz., 2310gr.)
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1816
Tapering cylindrical, on circular base, the body set overall with antique coins, with leaf-clad spout and tubular scroll handle with laurel, the hinged cover with fluting and ring thumbpiece with guilloche and set with a silver commemorative medal, the obverse with profile of George III and with KING GEORGE III ASCENDED THE BRITISH THRONE, OCT 25 1760. NATIONAL JUBILEE, OCT. 25, 1809., the reverse with a winged figure with allegories of time and with 1760 GEORGE THE III REIGNS 1809 and LONG LIVE THE KING, signed P. WYON. F, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms, crest and motto within an asymmetrical foliate scroll and rocaille cartouche, the cover engraved with an Earl's coronet and a monogram, marked on base and cover and stamped RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLAE REGENTIS BRITANNIAS LONDINI FECERUNT on base
10in. (25.4cm.) high
(74oz., 2310gr.)