Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 1 - 13th July 2021

Lot 408

A Victorian silver memorial dish

Estimate £300 - £350 | Hammer £280

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Description

A Victorian silver memorial dish,

over-stamped with maker's mark of John Beresford, London 1888,

circular form, the centre with an arms of Robert Henry Allan and the border with a memorial inscription to him, diameter 24cm, approx. weight 18.5oz.

Robert Henry Allan (1802-1879), of Blackwell Grange and Blackwell Hall, County Durham was High Sherriff of Durham in 1851.