Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 179
re is another service of gold plate, which was not used atall. The King has made it over to the crown. All this plate was ordered by thelate King, (George IV) and never used; his delight was ordering what the publichad to pay for. Another from Fitzgeralds Life and Times of William IV: The royal… … 140 BOWLS, CISTERNS, ETC. 141 fifty persons, and one of the finest wine coolers in the world, added to the collec-tion by the same monarch. . . . And thirty dozen plates, worth ,£10,000. The comparatively modern wine-cooler for a single bottleis always of some vase form; one of the best being the…
Plate · Silverwork · Hallmarks
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