George III Crested Silver Double Scroll Shaped Wine Label 'Madeira' Waller Family

A rare George III silver Wine Label of down turned double scroll form surmounted by a oval cartouche with a double reeded border and supports, the ends engraved with bunches of grapes and the cartouche engraved with an armorial crest depicting a walnut tree ppr on a mount vert, an escutcheon hanging from the branches, for the Waller family. Incised for Madeira.

This rare design is usually seen with a bright-cut engraved border.

By Phipps & Robinson, London, c1800.

Blazon of crest:
On a mount vert, a walnut-tree ppr., on the sinister side pendent an escutcheon az., charged with three fleurs-de-lis, two and one or.

£220.00