Property of a descendant of William Beckford & The Dukes of Hamilton
A pair of George IV silver asparagus tongs, William King, London, 1824,
Lot Closed
January 14, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a descendant of William Beckford & The Dukes of Hamilton
A pair of George IV silver asparagus tongs, William King, London, 1824,
pierced blades, one with scratchweight 6=11; together with a fish slice, William Seaman, London, 1820, pierced with a fish and engraved 'R' below a coronet for Rochford; and a cased pair of fish servers, initialed HBC below a Duke or Duchess's coronet, maker's mark HH, probably electroplated, circa 1880
length of the fish slice 32cm, 12 3/5 in; of the tongs 25cm, 9 4/5 in.
358gr., 11oz 10dwt excluding plated fish servers
The Fishslice, William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 5th Earl of Rochford (1754–1830);
to his step-nephew Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, 7th Duke of Brandon (1767–1852);
By descent to Lady Mary Louise (1884-1957), only child and principal heir of William Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton, who married in 1906 James Graham (1878-1954), Marquis of Graham who in 1925 succeeded his father as 6th Duke of Montrose;
Thence by descent.