STRUCK J. WAGNER & SOHN, BERLIN, DATED 1909, ALSO STRUCK 800

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A German silver salver
Struck J. Wagner & Sohn, Berlin, dated 1909, also struck 800
Shaped circular with reeded everted border, engraved with 21 various coat-of-arms, each inscribed with name underneath, the centre with large crowned double coat-of-arms, the reverse with inscription, marked on base
49 cm. diam.
2320 gr.
The inscription reads: Seiner Exzellenz dem Kaiserlichen Gesandten Herrn von Bülow and Frau von Bülow zur silbernen Hochzeit gewidmet von den Legationssekretären, militär= Attacheés und Attachés der Gesandschaft in Bern den 20sten Mai 1909 further engraved with coats-of-arms and the following names of:
Frhr v. Meerscheidt-Hüllessem
v. Flöckher
Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
Frhr v. Langwerth v. Simmern
Graf zu Rantzau
v. Buchwaldt
Frhr v. Beaulieu-Marconnay
v. Bülow-Stolle
v. Hirschfeld
v. Düring
v. Frerichs
v. Treutler
Frhr v. Bodmann
Graf v. Mirbach-Harff
v. Buch
Haniel v. Haimhausen
Graf Mirbach-Geldern
Graf Bassewitz
v. Behr
v. Beneckendorff und v. Hindenburg

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Lot Essay

Alfred von Bülow (1851-1916) married Marie Gräfin von Dillen-Spiering (1850-1934) in 1884.
Alfred von Bülow was Dr. jur., Königlich preussischer Kammerherr, Geheimer Rat und Gesandter (Ambassador) in Bern from 1898-1912

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