hallmarked London, 1881, Robert Harper, compressed ovoid body, the lower section with raising narrow lobes, above a plain foot ring, shallow cape top with lightly domed and lobed hinged lid with falling lobes beneath rectangular wooden finial, engraved with a crest, plain spout and looped wooden handle, total weight 515gm h 14cms Purchased: Consolidated Auctions, Chatswood, 1983, with original Eggleton notes Catalogue Note: "The firm had been established in Whiskin Street, Clerkenwell, about 1853 by Robert Harper after he had left the employ of Joseph Angell III. He was no doubt with Angell at the time of his Great Exhibition successes. Harper eventually moved in 1869 to the premises of an old established business, that of the manufacturiong silversmiths Samuel Hayne & Co, in Red Lion St, Clerkenwell." 19th Century Silver