Lot 2
A MEXICAN PRESENTATION SALVER
MARKED 925
Auction: 16 September 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Of moulded circular outline, gadrooned border, engraved to the dish ‘ AL HONOR SENOR GEORGE LYALL ESQR. G.B.E. …1942’ with facsimile signatures
Dimensions
42.5cm diameter, 48oz
Footnote
George Lyall, C.B.E, born Macduff, Banffshire on 14th March 1883, died Aberdeen on 6th September 1959.
After working as a journalist he entered the diplomatic service first in San Jose, Costa Rica, then in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Following a period in Vigo, Spain as Consul he was appointed Consul in Berlin and then Consul General. Following the outbreak of World War 2 he was then posted back to Central America as Consul General for both Honduras and Costa Rica, he retired to Aberdeen in 1942.
The translation shows that this is a gift from his San Jose Diplomatic Corps colleagues.