Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 1 - 18th April 2023 - 18 Apr 2023
A George III provincial silver meat skewer
A George III provincial silver meat skewer,
by Robert Jones of Liverpool, Chester 1810,
plain ring terminal, initialled, length 26cm, approx. weight 1.2oz.
Provenance: From the private collection of the late Joyce Lowe, of Lowe and Sons, Chester. She became the only female Honorary Member of The Chester Goldsmiths Company in her family's two hundred year ownership of the firm (1770-1977).
Written up in Ridgway, M., Chester Silver 1727-1837, Phillimore and Co. Ltd., 1985, page 93, no.2 in the skewer section.