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Property of a Private Estate

A Victorian silver tray, Edward Barnard & Sons, London, 1900

Lot Closed

December 19, 02:08 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Victorian silver tray, Edward Barnard & Sons, London, 1900


Shaped-rectangular form, with a cast shell and flower border, the centre chased with matching decoration and a coat-of-arms

79cm., 31in. long

5939gr., 190oz.

The arms are those of the Barons de Longueuil, probably for Reginald Charles d’Iberville Grant, 8th Baron de Longueuil of Longueuil in the province of Quebec, Canada. He was born on 24 January 1856 and married on 17 February 1891 to Kate Isobel Constance (d. 1927), daughter of John Church of Carfin, Lanarkshire, and widow of W.H. Burrows. He succeeded to the title upon the death of his half-brother on 13 December 1898 and died in 1931.