Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

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]