A set of four George II silver dishes, Edward Wakelin, London, 1753

shaped circular, spirally-fluted and quilted and with shaped rims, the centre of each engraved at a slightly later date with a coat-of-arms within drapery mantling, the undersides engraved with scratch weights: '14..2,' '15..12,' '15..1' and '15..10,' also engraved with the initials 'T.S' and inscribed: 'Sometimes taken to the Country'

All with clear makers marks and hallmarks to underside. All with splits and repaired splits (with silver solder) visible to undersides of each. Well used but in otherwise good condition.
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The arms are those of Hill-Trevor of Belvoir, co. Down, and Brynkinalt, co. Denbigh with Stafford in pretence for Arthur Hill-Trevor, formerly Trevor, who on 17 February 1766 was created Baron Hill of Olderfleet and Viscount of Dungannon. His second wife, whom he married on 12 January 1737, was Anne (1715-1799), daughter and heir of Edmund Francis Stafford of Brownstown, co. Meath, and Mount Stafford, co. Antrim. Lord Dungannon, who was born in 1694 and died in 1771, was succeeded by his grandson, Arthur Hill-Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon (1763-1837).