ADAM'S - SILVER FROM THE COLLECTION OF JIMMY WELDON May 16th 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

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with later repoussé, chased and engraved foliate decoration and

central cartouche containing initials‘RFH’ surmounted with

crest, applied acanthus wrapped‘S’ scroll handle and raised on

engraved circular spreading foot, (c.248.8g). 11cm high

After the 1807 legislation where Cork plate was required to be

sent to the assay office in Dublin, provincial makers tended to

not stamp their marks to avoid this legislation.

€ 200 - 400

mark of Bart Moss, of baluster form with everted rim, later

chased and embossed with foliated decoration and scrolls to an

orange peel ground containing a central cartouche engraved

with initials, with gilt interior, leaf capped‘C’ scroll handle and

raised on stepped circular foot, (c.280g). 12cm high

€ 300 - 500

1745:On the 19th of October Jonathan Swift,satirist and Dean of St.

Patrick’s Cathedral,Dublin dies aged 78.His body is laid out in public

for the people of Dublin to pay their last respects,and he is buried,in

accordance with his wishes,in his cathedral by Esther Johnson’s side with

his own epitaph:Ubi sæva Indignatio / Ulterius / Cor lacerare nequit

(“where savage indignation can no longer lacerate the heart”).