An Edward VII Silver Tray by Herbert Edward Barker and Frank Ernest

in the George III style, shaped oblong and on four cast ball and claw feet, with flower, foliage and scroll heightened gadrooned border and two scroll handles, similarly engraved and centring an engraved coat-of-arms 59.5cm wide over handles, 133oz 1dwt, 4,138gr The coat-of-arms are those of Birtwhistle impaling Birtwhistle, perhaps copying those of John Birtwhistle (1799-1869) and his wife Martha who he married in 1818, perhaps as borne by one of their children. Provenance Perhaps Sotheby's, London, 5 June 2001, lot 204

Estimate:$6,631.61

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