An interesting set of designs for presentations swords intended for prominent senior officers of...

An interesting set of designs for presentations swords intended for prominent senior officers of the Second World War: polychrome pen and ink drawings on tissue paper, heightened with white, the elaborate designs each embodying motifs that reference key themes in the careers of the following officers: Read-Admiral Viscount Cunningham, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Air Marshal Lord Tedder, and Air Marshal Viscount Porter; together with three similar designs for prize cups: the 'Ascot Gold Cup 1947', the 'Hunt Cup', and the 'King's Gold Vase'; attributed to the Master Goldsmith George Danks (provenance: by descent to his son). [9]