拍品 245
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AN UNUSUAL VICTORIAN SCOTTISH SILVER TEAPOT FORMED AS A CURLING STONE**

MAKER'S MARK OF MARSHALL & SONS, EDINBURGH, 1837

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AN UNUSUAL VICTORIAN SCOTTISH SILVER TEAPOT FORMED AS A CURLING STONE**
maker's mark of marshall & sons, edinburgh, 1837
Realistically formed as a curling stone with flat cover, the curved spout removable and replaceable with a plug, the threaded cylindrical handle with ivory insulator, the cover engraved with a presentation inscription, marked on base, cover, handle and spout
7¼in (18.5cm.) diameter; gross weight 42oz. 10dwt. (1326gr.)

拍品专文

The inscription reads: PRESENTED By the Duddingston Curling Society TO EDWARD HOGGAN ESQUIRE IN TESTIMONY OF THEIR HIGH ESTIMATION OF HIS ZEALOUS & EFFICIENT SERVICES And affable and obliging deportment, As their Secretary. 1838. The sport of curling, popular in Scotland, is a game played on ice in which large circular flat stones are slid toward a mark.