A SET OF TWELVE QUEEN ANNE SILVER TABLE-SPOONS FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
A SET OF TWELVE QUEEN ANNE SILVER TABLE-SPOONS FROM THE SMITH SERVICE

MARK OF JOHN LADYMAN, LONDON, 1705, BRITANNIA STANDARD

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A SET OF TWELVE QUEEN ANNE SILVER TABLE-SPOONS FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
MARK OF JOHN LADYMAN, LONDON, 1705, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Dog nose pattern with rat-tail, engraved with a cypher 'AR' within Garter motto and below the Royal crown, further engraved with a crest
26 oz. 18 dwt. (836 gr.) (12)
Provenance
John Smith (1655-1723), Speaker of the House of Commons then by descent to his son
Captain William Smith (d.1773) and then by descent to his nephew
Thomas Assheton Smith (1725-1774), who assumed the additional name of Smith in 1774 following the death of his maternal uncle, William Smith in 1773 and then by descent, father to son, until his grandson's widow, who left the Welsh estates to her husband's great-nephew on her death in 1858
George William Duff-Assheton-Smith (1848-1904) and then by descent to his great nephew
Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Bt. (1907-1980).
Sir Michael Duff, Bt.; Christie's London, 10 December 1958, lot 100.

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