QUEEN MARY'S CHRISTENING PRESENT A VICTORIAN SILVER CUP AND COVER MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD LONDON, 1868 Tapering cylindrical and on a lobed domed foot, the lower part of the body applied with cut-card foliage, with two leaf-capped harp-shaped handles and a gadrooned rim, the conforming cover with a baluster finial, engraved on one side with initials 'MR' below a Royal crown, the other with an inscription, marked underneath and on cover, the base further stamped 'GARRARDS PANTON STREET LONDON' ; with a card from Barnwell Manor, Peterborough inscribed in an unknown hand 'From Her Majesty Queen Mary Godmother' 11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) high 62 oz. (1,935 gr.) The inscription reads ' To my Grandson and Godson William Henry Andrew Frederick on his Christening 22nd February 1942 ' The initial is that of H.M. Queen Mary (1867-1953).
QUEEN MARY'S CHRISTENING PRESENT A VICTORIAN SILVER CUP AND COVER MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD LONDON, 1868 Tapering cylindrical and on a lobed domed foot, the lower part of the body applied with cut-card foliage, with two leaf-capped harp-shaped handles and a gadrooned rim, the conforming cover with a baluster finial, engraved on one side with initials 'MR' below a Royal crown, the other with an inscription, marked underneath and on cover, the base further stamped 'GARRARDS PANTON STREET LONDON' ; with a card from Barnwell Manor, Peterborough inscribed in an unknown hand 'From Her Majesty Queen Mary Godmother' 11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) high 62 oz. (1,935 gr.) The inscription reads ' To my Grandson and Godson William Henry Andrew Frederick on his Christening 22nd February 1942 ' The initial is that of H.M. Queen Mary (1867-1953).
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