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A George II silver-mounted blackjack circa 1750
Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 USD
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Description
- height 10 in.
- 25.4 cm
the front applied with an engraved silver armorial cartouche, unmarked. Together with another, also silver-mounted, and a silver-mounted mazer bowl, both in Elizabethan style. 3 pieces.
Catalogue Note
The Irish arms are those of Forde impaling Knox for Mathew Forde of Seaford and Coolgreany, M.P. for Downpatrick, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Knox of Dungannon and sister of Thomas, Ist Viscount Northland, whom he married in 1750.