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Silver from the Collection of Jimmy Weldon

167 A VICTORIAN FOUR PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, LONDON 1878,

mark of Henry Holland, comprising teapot, coffee pot, cream jug and two handled sugar bowl, each of tapering baluster form with angular han-

dles, the pots each with flat hinged lid and plain silver finial, the bodies of each with conforming chased and engraved scrolling foliate decoration

contained within heart shaped panels above leafy swags, crested to one side, the creamer and sugar bowl each with gilt interior, (c.1804g all in).

The coffee pot 22.5cm high, 22.5cm wide over handle and spout, the teapot 16.5cm high, 23.5cm wide over handle and spout. (4)

€ 1,200 - 1,500

1878: Eadweard Muybridge produces the sequence of stop-motion still photographs of Sallie Gardner at a Gallop in California,a predecessor of silent film demon-

strating that all four feet of a galloping horse are off the ground at the same time.