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36 AN IRISH PROVINCIAL GEORGE III SHELL BOWL LADLE, CORK C.1760,mark of John Nicolson, with Hanoverian pattern handle, (c.217g). 34cm long
€ 1,000 - 2,000
John Nicholson I, Silversmith mentioned 1756; of Grand Parade, married CatherineWarner
at St. Nicholas’ Church, 12th March 1768; started sword cutting business 5th January 1769
opposite Boland’s Lane; appointed a valuator of HolyTrinity parish 9th August 1783; registered
as of Castle Street, Cork, in Dublin 1784; probably dead by 1805. Robert Day (1836-1914),
the doyen of collectors and students of Cork silver, noted in his catalogue of his own collection
at 4th April 1884, the John Nicholson owned the fields between the Gasworks and the Bandon
Railway known as ‘Nicholson’s Fields’. (Bowen and O’Brien, 2005 pp180-186)
1760:On the 25th October George III becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of George II.