A pair of George IV silver vegetable dishes and covers, Paul Storr, London, 1824

with shaped gadroon, acanthus and shell rims, the dishes crested, covers engraved with arms, crest, motto and supporters under a coronet, with heraldic finials matching the arms

both with several small dings throughout- one dish with a larger amount of dings, the finial "petals" dented slightly, otherwise good
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The arms are those of Hamilton for Robert Montgomerie, 8^th Lord Belhaven and Stenton, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland  and Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire, representative peer for Scotland 1819-31, created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Hamilton of Wishaw, co. Lanark 1831. He was born in 1793, married in 1815 Hamilton, daughter of Walter Frederick Campbell of Shawfield and Islay. She died in 1873, and he died without issue in 1868 when the U.K. barony became extinct and his Scottish honours devolved on his kinsman James Hamilton 3^rd of Stevenston.