Strauss & co - 21 October 2013, Cape Town

277 A William IV silver castle-top vinaigrette of Newstead Abbey, Joseph Taylor & John Perry, Birmingham, 1836 rectangular, the hinged, cast cover with raised foliate borders, the sides and base with engine-turned decoration, the base with a reserve engraved with ‘C Stott Crewe’, the gilt interior with pierced and engraved foliate grille, 33g, 4,6cmwide R8 000 – 10 000 NOTES Newstead Abbey was the ancestral home of the poet, Lord Byron 278 A Victorian silver castle-top vinaigrette of Exeter Cathedral, Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham, 1843 shaped rectangular, with hinged, engraved cover and moulded thumbpiece, the sides and base with engine-turned detail, the base with a cartouche engraved with the initials ‘MHR’, with gilt interior and grille pierced and engraved with foliage, oxidisation to interior base and grille, grille possibly replaced, 19,3g, 4cm wide; and another, David Pettifer, Birmingham, 1856, shaped rectangular, the hinged cover engraved with a view of Windsor Castle across the River Thames with rowboats in the foreground, the sides and base with engine-turned detail, the base with a vacant cartouche, with gilt interior and grille pierced and engraved with foliage, oxidisation to interior, scratches to interior base, 17,4g, 3,6cmwide (2) R7 000 – 9 000 279 A William IV silver vinaigrette, Cronin & Wheeler, Birmingham, 1846 shaped oval, the hinged cover with a vacant cartouche, the whole engraved with alternating plain and engine-turned bands, with concave sides, the gilt interior with pierced and engraved foliate grille 18g, 4,1cmwide; and a Victorian silver vinaigrette, Edward Smith, Birmingham, 1845, floriform, the hinged cover engraved with a vacant cartouche enclosed by scrolling foliate and engine-turned decoration, with conforming base, concave sides and snake-shaped thumbpiece, with gilt interior and grille pierced and engraved with foliage, 19,1g, 3,8cm wide (2) R3 000 – 4 000 277 278 279 PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR | LOTS 263-298 111