Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 1 - 11th July 2023
Lot 260
A Victorian regimental silver Old English pattern tablespoon, the 23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers)
Estimate £60 - £80 | Hammer £50
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Description
A Victorian regimental silver Old English pattern tablespoon, the 23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot,
by John Samuel Hunt, London 1857,
the terminal with the regimental badge, approx. weight 1.9oz.
Provenance: A Private Collection of Military Silver.
Raised in 1639, it took part in the American War of Independence, The Peninsular War, and Waterloo. It was in the Crimea in 1854 and returned to England in 1856. It was at the Indian Mutiny in 1857 and the Burma campaign in 1885, before fighting in South Africa during World Wars I and II.