A set of three George III silver salvers, Richard Rugg, London, 1776

shaped circular, the centres engraved with a coat-of-arms within cartouches, embossed drapery, tassel, paterae and ribbon bow borders below beading, each on four claw and ball supports

One of the small salvers has a very small bruise near border. All have very light scuffing commensurate with age, marks and condition good apart from a small repair and small crack in the border of the large salver
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The arms are those of Vavasor, baronets of Haslewood, Yorkshire, probably for Sir Walter Vavasor who was born in 1744 and succeeded to the title upon the death of his father in 1776. He married in 1797 Jane, only daughter and heir of William Langdale of Langthorp, and died without issued in 1802. The title passed to his brother, Sir Thomas Vavasor, 3rd Bt.

Richard Rugg, working silversmith of St. John’s Square, Clerkenwell, died early in 1775 and was buried on 13 March at St. Mary, Lewisham, Surrey. His son and former apprentice, also Richard Rugg, who was admitted to the Livery of the Goldsmiths’ Company in 1771, died between 1795 and 1801.