Lot 208

STRATFORD UPON AVON STUDIO - a white metal Monteith

Auction: 11 July 2007 at 12:00 BST
£744
Description
apparently unmarked, of traditional form, flanked by lion mask capped ring handles, with scroll cast scalloped edge, semi-fluted with embossed ovolo and galleon borders, cast to each side with a cartouche incorporating galleons and bulidings flanked by figural attendants, the circular foot inscribed FROM THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE ON ITS BICENTENARY 22nd June 1920 TO J.A. TOMBAZIS
Dimensions
29cm diameter, 54oz
Footnote
John Anderson Tombazis, clerk to The Scottish Provincial Assurance Company, Glasgow, (1899) then clerk to North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, Glasgow (1890) He was the father of James Lyell Tombazis one of the youngest recipients of the DSO and MC.
