£1,063
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky | 651
Auction: 18 August 2021 at 11:00 BST
Assay Mater Hugh Gordon, of inverted pear shape with chased flowerhead, fruit, scroll and shells motifs, twin scroll formed cartouches, with fluted spout and C scroll handle
Heraldry:
Crests:
Mercer
The head and neck of a heron erased holding in its beak an eel seizing the neck of the former all proper
Motto: The grit pool or ‘Ye gret pule’ (The great pool) or variants.
Forbes
This crest has been greatly polished but the motto indicate that it is pertains to a branch of the Forbes family.
Motto: Do not waken the sleeping dogs
These crests undoubtedly commemorate the marriage of William Mercer of Potterhill in the County of Perthshire (born 8th January 1755 died 3rd August 1801) and Barbara Forbes of Gask. William and Barbara were married on the 6th November 1788.
William, an Ensign in the 19th Regiment of Foot at Gibraltar in 1770, later served as a Lieutenant in the Governor General’s Bodyguard of India in 1783. He also served as the Aide de Camp to Warren Hastings in 1784 and was later a Captain with the 5th Bengal Cavalry. He died at Ghazepore, India as the result of a duel with The
Honourable Andrew Ramsay, the brother of the Earl of Dalhousie on the 3rd August 1801. The reason for the duel is not known
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