Description
Stanley Baldwin Interest: a five piece presentation silver tea and coffee set,
by Elkington and Co, Birmingham 1911,
tapering panelled and batwing form, reeded borders, scroll handles, domed hinged covers with pine cone finials, the sugar basket with a swing handle, all pieces monogrammed 'S.B' and dated 1912, the teapot also inscribed 'Presented to Stanley Baldwin Esq. M.P by the workpeople of Cookley Stour Vale and Swindon Works', height of coffee pot 24.5cm, approx. weight 73oz. (5)
Stanley Baldwin joined the family business of iron founders and tinplate manufacturers, E.P. and W. Baldwin, in 1888 and was directly responsible for the purchase of the business of Messrs Knight and Crowther, consisting of the Stour Vale Iron works, Kidderminster, and the Cookley Iron Works, Brierley Hill.
Provenance:
sold by direction of the Master and Court of Assistants of The Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers.
