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12 A FINE IRISH PROVINCIAL GEORGE III ASPARAGUS TONGS BY CARDEN TERRY, CORK C.1780,of plain design with scissors action double ring handle and curvilinear grip, (c.155.5g). 26.5cm long
€ 1,500 - 2,500
1780:British troops occupy Charleston,South Carolina during theAmerican Revolutionary War
13 A GEORGE III SHELL BOWL SOUP LADLE, LONDON 1790,mark of Peter & Jonathan Bateman, (c.140g). 33cm long
€ 200 - 300
1790:8th January 1790:GeorgeWashington,the first President of the United
States of America delivers his first‘State of the Union’address to Congress
CardenTerry, Goldsmith and Silversmith, born February 1742 to JohnTerry of Cork & Sarah Carden ofTemplemore, Co.Tipperary;
married CatherineWebb of Kilworth 1765; 9th February 1764 advertised business at the‘New House within 2 doors of the Broad
Lane, Corke, at the sign of the Golden Cup’ member, Cork Goldsmiths Co., 1768; 30thApril 1770 advertised he‘has returned from
London and Dublin and sets up as a Goldsmith; wants an apprentice’; freeman 29th July 1785; registered in Dublin 1784 as of North
Main Street; he died 16th July 1821. His older sister Jane married Hercules Morgan, the Clonmel Silversmiths, in February 1754.
(Bowen and O’Brien, 2005 pp180-186)