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Property from a West Country manor house

A George III silver ink stand, Paul Storr, London, 1803

Live auction begins on:

November 19, 01:30 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Bid

11,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The rectangular base with two pen grooves either side of the cut-glass ink wells and wafer box surmounted by the crest of Talbot, the reeded handle with lion head supports and topped by an earl's coronet,


36.5cm, 14½in. long

3324gr., 106¾oz

Charles Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot, (1777–1849) and by descent to

John George Chetwynd-Talbot, 21st Earl of Shrewsbury, 21st Earl of Waterford, 6th Earl Talbot (1914–1980), sold

Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1972, lot 210

Sotheby's, London, 1 November 1990, lot 375