Victorian silver presentation salver, engraved "This Salver,...

Hammer

£240

Victorian silver presentation salver, engraved "This Salver, with a purse containing 60 sovereigns, was presented to Mrs Mary Whittington, by several of her friends & neighbours in testimony of their esteem and of their appreciation of her courteous and efficient services during the twenty six years she officiated as the Post Mistress of Neath, 1866", in a central roundel surrounded by floral and scrolling foliate decoration and a beaded rim, on 3 ball and claw feet, by Robert Harper, London, 1866, Dia.25.3cm, 570grs