Victorian Cast Silver Gilt Armorial Wine Label 'Claret' - Crest of Crewe
ROBERT GARRARD, London 1864
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A fine and rare Victorian cast silver gilt Armorial Wine Label, made in the form of the Crewe family crest (out of a ducal coronet a lion's gamb erect), incised for Claret.
By Robert Garrard, London, 1864
Sold - £780.00
Condition
In good condition with no damage or repair, some loss to the original gilding
Dimensions
H
51 mm
(2.01 inches)
W
57 mm
(2.24 inches)
Weight
26.30 Grams
(0.85 troy ounces)
Country
England
Stock Code
TRS240518.590
Medium
Silver
Literature
Mary Evelyn Hungerford Crewe-Milnes (named after her godmother Queen Mary) was born into a world of tradition and high society. Her mother was the daughter of a British Prime Minister and a Rothschild heiress, and her father was the handsome Earl of Crewe. Their homes were frequented by bright young things, politicians and the grandees of society. Mary, their only surviving child, inherited West Horsley Place in Surrey from her mother. This beautiful estate, frozen in time, housed a collection from a vanished world inherited from the most illustrious families in Britain: from the footman’s gold and blue livery, furniture, ceramics, silver set picnic hampers through to a battered Louis Vuitton suitcase that opened to reveal a collection of exquisite 18th-century French fans and Mary’s Cartier engagement ring. Each piece gives us a glimpse into a world which we will never see again but lives forever in the extraordinary story of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe.
