An Elizabeth II red Morocco leather British government dispa...

Hammer

£2,050

An Elizabeth II red Morocco leather British government dispatch box with gilt embossed ERII cipher to the top, gilt top handle, Bramah lock and key, by Barrow Hepburn & Gale Ltd, with black leather lined interior, 46 by 30 by 18cm.
Provenance: Formerly the property of Robert Edwin Alford, K.B.E, (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire) C.M.G., Governor and commander-in-chief of St Helena (between 1958-1962.) and Chief Secretary to the Government of Zanzibar., recipient of Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar.
Estate of the late Ralph Robert Alford, son of Robert Edwin Alford, K.B.E, C.M.G, and Teresa, Lady Alford, nee Teresa Mary Margaret Knill, who was daughter of Mary Kathleen Knill, grand-daughter of Margaret Mary Knill (married to Henry Francis Purcell), and great-grand daughter of Jane Knill, (married name: Jane Welby Pugin, who was the third wife of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.)