Sale 6910
London
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15 June 2004
Price realised
GBP 17,925
Estimate
A set of twenty-four George III Scottish silver dinner-plates Mark of Patrick Robertson, Edinburgh, 1772 Each shaped circular, with gadrooned border, each engraved with a coat-of-arms with Earl's coronet above, each marked on reverse 9¾in. (24.5cm.) diam. 411oz. (12,811gr.) The arms are those of Scotland quartering Stewart and Moray impaling Gray, for Francis, 9th Earl of Moray (1737-1810) and his wife Jean (d.1786), daughter of John, 11th Baron Gray (1716-1782), whom he married in 1763. Lord Moray was a Representative Scottish Peer from 1784 until 1796, although a challenge was made in 1790 due to a plea that the Earldon should have descended to the daughter of Lord Doune, eldest brother of the 6th Earl, who predeceased his father. Lord Moray was crested a Peer of the United Kingdom in 1796. (24)
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