A pair of George III silver salvers, Richard Rugg, London, 1768

shaped circular, each with applied gadroon borders above three hoof supports, the centres engraved with a coat-of-arms and crest within a rococo cartouche, the undersides engraved by T.K. Parr in freehand script: 'Thomas Knowlys Parr / from / his Mothers Home / Heysham Hall'

Knowlys family and by descent to Thomas Knowlys Parr
Sotheby's, London, 6 March 2001, lot 572

Marks good, overall condition and engraving rather worn, one slightly more so than the other and with two pinholes to the angles
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The arms are those of Knowlys of Heysham Hall, Lancashire, and Stockwell, Surrey, impaling another, ancestors of Thomas Knowlys Parr (1863-1938), who lived and died at Wymering Manor, near Cosham, Hampshire.

The freehand inscriptions on the undersides of these salvers were clearly written by Thomas Knowlys Parr himself; compare his signature with that on the 1911 Census for 49 Lansdown Place, Hove, Sussex, where he was head of the household. He was born at Clifton, Gloucestershire, in 1863, the son of Thomas Parr (1834-1905), a solicitor, and his wife Louisa Debonnaire, née Knowlys (1840-1863).