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A Magnificent 19th Century Coldstream Guards Presentation Silver Gilt Two Handled Cup and Cover, on a turned parcel-gilt ebonised base, by the Crown Jeweller Robert Garrard (1793-1881), hallmarked London 1865, and inscribed ‘Presented to the officers Mess of the Coldstream Guards by Lt. Colonel J.H.B. Lane on promotion April 1867’
Height overall: 38cm. Weight: 72oz Price: £ 7750.00 (GBP)
Robert Garrard, (1793-1881), was the driving force behind the celebrated partnership of R. & S. Garrard (later Garrard of Regent street) which from 1843 held Queen Victoria’s and succeeding monarchs’ appointments of The Crown Jewellers
Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Bagot Lane, (1829-1886), of King’s Bromley, Staffordshire, was the son of John Newton Lane and his wife, the Hon. Agnes Bagot, daughter of Sir William Bagot, 2 nd Baron Bagot of Bagot’s Bromley. He was commissioned Ensign in Coldstream Guards in January 1855 and sailed for the Crimea where he saw active service from 2 May 1855 in the siege and capture of Sebastopol. He was promoted Lieutenant & Captain in his regiment on 26 October 1858.
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