Important English Furniture and Silver

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Lot 248
  • 248

Seven George III silver fiddle pattern tea spoons and a pair of sugar tongs, Solomon Hougham, London, 1801/2

Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • sugar tongs 14.5cm, 5 3/4 in long
the terminals engraved with the initial N below a viscount's coronet and B below a ducal crown for Viscount Nelson and Duke of Bronte

Provenance

Vice-Admiral Horatio, Viscount Nelson K.B
Thence by descent to the present owner, see previous lot for detailed family history.

Catalogue Note

For a lot with the same initials see sale Trafalgar Nelson and the Napoleonic Wars including the Matcham Collection, Sotheby's, London 5 October 2005, lot 28.