AN ASSEMBLED SET OF FOURTEEN GEORGIAN SILVER DINNER PLATES, LONDON, 1749-68

Property from a Private Kansas Collection

AN ASSEMBLED SET OF FOURTEEN GEORGIAN SILVER DINNER PLATES, LONDON, 1749-68

all engraved with matching coat of arms of circa 1830, comprising: seven by Willliam Cripps, 1755, one by John Jacobs, 1749, and six with maker’s mark of John Jacobs over another, 1768. Together with six soup plates with stork crest, rims altered by WE, 1824-5 and one with rams head crest by Paul Storr, 1808, 21 pieces

marked on backs of rims, engraved with scratch weights, Cripps plates: No 2 / 17=13; No 5 / 17=11; No 10 / 16=16; No 16 / 17=6; No 26 / 18=3=12; No 41 / 18=12; No 44 / 19=5; Jacobs, 1768 plates numbered: 40, 46, 49, 50, 58, 63

376 oz

11694 g

diameters 9½ and 9¾ in.

24.2 and 24.8 cm