7 Jun 2005
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Jewellery and Silver, including Masonic Collectables
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Jewellery and Silver, including Masonic Collectables
Back to auction 11655
Foreign Silver (pre 1900)
A late 17th Century German parcel-gilt tankard
By Jacob Pfaff, Nürnburg circa 1700
The tapering cylindrical body with chased oval panels of female busts and fruit panels, below a similar domed cover with a cast swan finial and scroll thumbpiece, later inscribed "Presented to Algernon Frederick Webb, Newstead Abbey, by Mrs Crozier, January 1879", 18.0cm high, 15oz.
The tapering cylindrical body with chased oval panels of female busts and fruit panels, below a similar domed cover with a cast swan finial and scroll thumbpiece, later inscribed "Presented to Algernon Frederick Webb, Newstead Abbey, by Mrs Crozier, January 1879", 18.0cm high, 15oz.
Sold for
£3,877
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Algernon Frederick Webb, born 13th May 1865, was the son of Colonel The Honourable William Frederick Webb DL, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire 1865, who had married Emilia Jane Goodlake, a grandaughter of the second Duke of Leinster, in 1856. He had purchased Newstead Abbey and Estate in 1860, taking up residence in 1861. The Estate was formally the ancestral home of the Byron Family, which Lord Byron sold in 1817.
The Webb family originated from Odstock, Wiltshire, and also had extensive estates at Cowton in the North Riding of Yorkshire. They had connections through marriage to important Landed Families. William Frederick Webb was a friend of the explorer, Dr David Livingstone.
Algernon Frederick Webb took his own life whilst at Cambridge on the 17th April 1884.
We have been unable to trace any information about Mrs Crozier.
The Victorian Histories of the Counties of England: Yorkshire North Riding, Vols. 1 & 2, (1968). We are also grateful to Haidee Jackson, Curator, Newstead Abbey, for her assistance.
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Category: Jewellery
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