Sale 6910
London
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15 June 2004
Price realised
GBP 5,975
Estimate
A set of four Queen Anne silver mugs Mark of John Sutton, London, 1702 Each slightly tapering cylindrical on circular rim foot, with reeded border and mid-rib, and scroll handle, the front engraved 'Independent Meeting GLOUCESTER', each marked on side 4in. (10cm.) high 29oz. (929gr.) (4)
Provenance
Anonymous sale [G. M. Aldridge Esq.]; Christie's London, 24 January 1923, lot 98 (£74 to Victor)
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No record can be found of a race-meeting at Gloucester at this time. It is possible that these mugs were for a political or religious, possibly Quaker, society meeting.
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