Sir John Spilman | Document signed, bill of sale for jewellery

Sir John Spilman

Document signed, Bill of sale, to Francis Haddon, Goldsmith

for 'Two greate Table dyamondes ech of them sett in a Collett of gould enamiled black' an advance of £1,020 with a proviso of redemption of £25, with the witness signature of Richard Chandler, 1 page, folio, 5 May 1619, edges frayed

Sir John Spilman was jeweller and goldsmith to James I, Anne of Denmark, and Elizabeth I. He founded the first commercially successful paper-mill in England.

PROVENANCE:

Papers of the Montagu family, Dukes of Manchester, formerly on loan at the Public Record Office; Sotheby’s, London, 20 November 1973, lot 86 (part lot)