The Yorkshire Club

Please note: The approx. weight is 5oz, not 25oz previously stated.

The Yorkshire Club, a Victorian provincial silver Old English pattern soup ladle,
by James Barber & William North, York 1841, also with the town mark,
the terminal engraved with the Yorkshire Rose, length 26.4cm, approx. weight 5oz.

The Yorkshire Club was established in 1839 at number 5 St Leonard's Place, and it merged with The Yorkshire Union Hunt Club in 1856. The silver flatware from the club was sold at Christie's on the 8th October 1969.

For further reading see Schrager, L., The Yorkshire Club and Its Flatware, The Finial, Volume 32/02 Nov/Dec 2021, pages 10 and 11.