Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 1 - 25th October 2022 - 25th October 2022

Lot 250

A Regimental silver menu card holder

Estimate £100 - £150 | Hammer £120

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Description

A Regimental silver menu card holder, The Cheshire Regiment,

possibly by William Comyns, London 1912,

modelled as the regimental badge, on a raided circular weighted base, height 5.8cm, plus another Regimental silver menu card holder, The Worcestershire Regiment, by Elkington and Co., Birmingham 1914, circular form, engraved with the regimental badge, on a raised weighted circular base, height 4.5cm. (2)

In 1970 the Worcestershire Regiment was amalgamated with the Sherwood Forresters, and in 2007 it merged with the Cheshire and the Staffordshire Regiments to form the Mercian regiment.