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Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
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Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Provenance
From The Silver Collection of Dr Andrew J Rainey
This is probably the crest of Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st Baronet, KCB, CSI (25 July 1818 – 24 October 1896) was a Baghdad-born businessman and philanthropist.
He was the eldest son of David SASSOON and Abdallah JOSEPH of Baghdad and in 1838 married Hannah Meyer MOSES whose father was Meyer MOSES of Bombay. In 1890 he was created 1st Baronet and died at his house, 1 Eastern Terrace, Brighton, on 24th October 1896. The ancestry of his family is to be found in Sason, a town in Norther Kurdistan. A caricature portrait in 'Vanity Fair' (16 Aug. 1879) entitled him 'The Indian Rothschild.'