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A George III double-ended egg cup, by Sebastian Crespell London 1824, crested for John Poulett, 5th Earl Poulett (1783-1864) .
Price: £285.00

John Poulett, 5th Earl Poulett (1783-1864) was educated at Harrow and Brasenose College, Oxford. He later held several positions in the Somerset Militia. In 1809, it was reported in the Gentleman's Magazine that he had married "the sister of Mrs. Farquharson" at Weymouth (although there seem to be no other references to this marriage) and in 1820 he married the Hon. Charlotte Portman at the British Embassy in Paris. He inherited the Earldom of Paulet in 1819, shortly before his second marriage, and is notable for being one of the 22 stalwarts who voted against the 3rd reading of the Reform Bill in 1832.

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A small (base diameter 11cm) pierced dish ring, by Pairpoint Brothers London 1929 .
Price: £245.00

The firm that became Pairpoint Brothers was founded in 1848 by Edward Pairpoint who had worked for the leading retailer Lambert's. It continued in the family until the mid twentieth century. The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmiths' Trade Journal of February 1937 commented of the firm that:

Of the place occupied by the four brothers Pairpoint in the silver world ... little is necessary to be said for their silver mark ... may be seen in every retail silver merchants window in London. It is admitted on all sides by experts, sometimes with a sigh of regret, sometimes with a grin of malice, that "Pairpoint" copies of ancient patterns are dangerously near being indistinguishable from the originals, whilst their new manufactures carry one back to the days when the master silversmiths employed the first artists of the day to assist them in their productions "devised in love and cunningly."