£1,200
A pair of George III silver sauce boats by William Skeen, London 1765, baluster bodies with gadrooned rim, anthemion and scrolled handles, engraved armorial beneath lip and raised on out swept lobbed bases, engraved arms, Butler of Kirkland quartered with Fleetwood, 16cm high, 933g (30oz).; together with a similar matched pair, marks rubbed 16cm (6.2in) high, 933g(30oz), (4) Butler of Kirkland Hall, Chruchtown, Lancaster. Alexander (1683-1767), last direct descendant, Bequeathed his estate to his great nephew. The Fleetwood Baronetcy, of Caldwich in the County of Stafford, was created in the Baronetage of England by James I on 19 June 1611 for Richard Fleetwood, a direct descendant of William Fleetwood of Hesketh, Lancashire. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1614 and built the Grade I listed Wootton Lodge at Ellastone. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1780.
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