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A set of twenty-four George III silver table-forks
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A set of twenty-four George III silver table-forks

MARK OF RICHARD CROSSLEY AND GEORGE SMITH, LONDON, 1807

细节
A set of twenty-four George III silver table-forks
Mark of Richard Crossley and George Smith, London, 1807
Old English pattern, each engraved on the reverse with a running fox and a banner above with the motto 'TALLY-HO', marked on reverse
each 7 7/8in. (20cm.) long
54oz. (1,680gr.) (24)
来源
Commissioned by The Tarporley Hunt Club in 1806.
出版
G. Fergusson, The Green Collars, The Tarporley Hunt Club and Cheshire Hunting History, London, 1993, p. 41.
注意事项
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

The Tarporley Hunt Club is the oldest surving hunt club in England, which has been in continuous existence since its foundation. The first dinner was held on the 14 November 1762 at the Swan Hotel, Tarporley. The very full and facinating history of the club is recorded in G. Fergusson's The Green Collars, The Tarporley Hunt Club and Cheshire Hunting History, published in 1993. He notes that six dozen forks were purchased with a subscription of £3 3s paid by each member.

The Old English pattern is a development of the earlier Hanoverian pattern, having, among other changes, four-pronged forks instead of three. Any engraving is normally on the reverse of the fork stem as in the present set because it was the practice at the time to lay the table with the tine pointing 'into' the table. Hence the crest or device, is engraved on the opposite side to spoons, which were set open bowl uppermost and were engraved on the front.