A Victorian silver-mounted magnum champagne bottle claret jug and matching goblet, Rupert Favell, London, 1879

engraved, Memento from the table at Irving's supper given on the stage of the Lyceum Feby 14, 1880. This bottle held Good Wine given by a Good Fellow to Good Fellows And - They liked it; the stopper associated.

James Robinson, New York

good condition, the stopper German, c. 1900, with London import marks for 1966, and the cork portion broken off in the decanter.
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The inscription refers to the supper party to celebrate the 100th performance of Irving's "Merchant of Venice."  Some 300 guests, headed by the Earls of Dunraven, Fife and Onslow and Lord Londesborough and Houghton, enjoyed a five-course supper and "cool magnums of Heidsieck 1874," (see Laurence Irving, Henry Irving, The Actor and His World, 1951, pp. 353-6).