ROYAL. A GEORGE I SILVER-GILT TWO-HANDLED CUP AND COVER, DAVID WILLAUME I, LONDON, 1716 |

engraved on one side with the royal arms as borne by Edward VIII the other with a coat-of-arms, the cover engraved with the cypher of Edward VIII

Good quality gauge of metal, marked on body and cover, very nice 18th century armorials as well as later royal arms, small repair in the cover which has been gilt over, general condition good.
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The arms are those of Dickinson impaling Appleyard.