A GEORGE III SILVER TONTINE INKSTAND
MARK OF HENRY CHAWNER, LONDON, 1789
A GEORGE III SILVER TONTINE INKSTAND, MARK OF HENRY CHAWNER, LONDON, 1789, Of oval boat shape with turned-over scroll ends, on bracket feet with reeded borders, with 2 mounted hob-nail cut-glass receivers on rams' heads & hoof supports, centred by an upright rectangular nib compartment with a ram's head at each of the chamfered corners, engraved with 2 crests & the arms of Hopkins quartering another, surmounted by a detachable obelisk cover wit ball finial upon whose 4 sides are inscribed the 31 names of the tontine, commencing with Thomas Clarke Esquire , died February 11th., 1730, aged 72, terminating with Elizabeth Bond , died November 30th., 1787, aged 62, 11 in. high (28 cm.), 12¼ in. long (31 cm.).
A GEORGE III SILVER TONTINE INKSTAND
MARK OF HENRY CHAWNER, LONDON, 1789
A GEORGE III SILVER TONTINE INKSTAND, MARK OF HENRY CHAWNER, LONDON, 1789, Of oval boat shape with turned-over scroll ends, on bracket feet with reeded borders, with 2 mounted hob-nail cut-glass receivers on rams' heads & hoof supports, centred by an upright rectangular nib compartment with a ram's head at each of the chamfered corners, engraved with 2 crests & the arms of Hopkins quartering another, surmounted by a detachable obelisk cover wit ball finial upon whose 4 sides are inscribed the 31 names of the tontine, commencing with Thomas Clarke Esquire , died February 11th., 1730, aged 72, terminating with Elizabeth Bond , died November 30th., 1787, aged 62, 11 in. high (28 cm.), 12¼ in. long (31 cm.).
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