A Victorian parcel-gilt silver double salt, John Samuel Hunt for Hunt & Roskell, London, 1850

cast and chased with a lion attacking a stag on a rocky ground, flanked by rocialle-bordered salt recepticles,  stamped Hunt & Roskell Late Storr and Mortimer

marked on body and each salt, good clear marks, main piece apparently without makers mark but with the Hunt and Roskell stamp, general condition good
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A John Samuel Hunt salt to this design, London 1845 sold Sothebys Geneva, 14 May 1990 lot 1 for CHF 10,000