D & J Wellby Ltd
Decorative Arts
About this Item
London, England
A set of four George V silver presentation table salts, D & J Wellby Ltd, London, 1913
each with circular body raised on three restrained cabriole legs, on hoof feet, one engraved 'From H. E. The Viscount Gladstone Governor General of the Union of South Africa and High Commissioner of South Africa. 1914.', 4,8cm high; and four George V silver Old English pattern salt spoons, Sutherland & Roden (George Guirren Rhoden), Sheffield, 1912, 355g all in
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Provenance
Formerly the Property of Mr TDH Long, (born 1871). He arrived in South Africa in 1896 and served as a sergeant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. He served throughout the South African campaigns before joining the staff of Government House, Cape Town in 1901, where he remained in service for thirty years as the 'Head Messenger'. Thence by descent to his daughter Edith Long and his granddaughter Joyce Reypert.
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