It would be nice to find out the identities of the crests and then the relationship these families had with each other.
Miles
One Spoon, Six Crests!
One Spoon, Six Crests!
This is an 1887 Table Spoon made in London by Aldwinkle and Slater.
It would be nice to find out the identities of the crests and then the relationship these families had with each other.
Miles
It would be nice to find out the identities of the crests and then the relationship these families had with each other.
Miles
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kerangoumar
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i am working this one over carefully. it suggests that the spoon was meant to commemorate six separate strands of a family line. not quite as involved as the sixteen quarters, but getting there. because this is on a late victorian spoon i have a tendency to think that this object was meant to impress guests. don't know whether it is my eyesight but i cannot quite determine the identity of the last creature - is it a chimera?
Re: One Spoon, Six Crests!
Hi Miles,
If you think you have a problem with six, then spare a thought for James Mortimer Garrard. In 1893 he was given the task of cataloguing the Duke of Portland's collection of silver. One of the pieces he had to detail was a silver tea table engraved with seventy-two coats of arms.
The tea table is thought to have been the work of Edward Holaday (Grimwade 1041). It weighs 80 oz. It has no date mark.
Source: A Catalogue of Gold and Silver Plate, the property of His Grace the Duke of Portland, with pen and ink sketches of the arms, crests, and mottoes, and full description, and date of each piece. By William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck Portland (Duke of), James Garrard - 1893
Trev.
If you think you have a problem with six, then spare a thought for James Mortimer Garrard. In 1893 he was given the task of cataloguing the Duke of Portland's collection of silver. One of the pieces he had to detail was a silver tea table engraved with seventy-two coats of arms.
The tea table is thought to have been the work of Edward Holaday (Grimwade 1041). It weighs 80 oz. It has no date mark.
Source: A Catalogue of Gold and Silver Plate, the property of His Grace the Duke of Portland, with pen and ink sketches of the arms, crests, and mottoes, and full description, and date of each piece. By William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck Portland (Duke of), James Garrard - 1893
Trev.
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Re: One Spoon, Six Crests!
It would take more sleuthing, but this is what I came up with for the six crests from the General Armory of England
Six Crests
1st: leg in armour couped at the thigh EYRE
2nd: seahorse couchant resting the dexter paw on a cross pattee HAMELYNG
3rd: a garb
4th: a person vested with sword wreathed about the head or temples
5th: a griffin passant ARCHER
6th: a lion sejant
I hope someone will be able to pick up where I left off. Cheers.
Six Crests
1st: leg in armour couped at the thigh EYRE
2nd: seahorse couchant resting the dexter paw on a cross pattee HAMELYNG
3rd: a garb
4th: a person vested with sword wreathed about the head or temples
5th: a griffin passant ARCHER
6th: a lion sejant
I hope someone will be able to pick up where I left off. Cheers.