A rare set of twenty-four George I silver-gilt dinner plates, John Edwards, London, 1720, Britannia Standard

circular, the borders engraved with a crest within a scrolling foliate and strapwork cartouche below a baron's coronet, the undersides numbered 1 to 24 and engraved respectively with the following scratch weights: '17=5,' '17=16,' '16=15,' '17=10,' '17=14,' '17 13,' '16=16,' '17=11,' '16=19,' '17=8,' '17=3,' '17=11,' '17=12,' '17=15,' '17=12,' '17=8,' '16=5,' '18=0,' '17=7,' '17=13,' '17=13,' '16=17,' '18=7' and '17=9'

Thomas Catesby Paget, styled Lord Paget (1689-1742), son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (1663-1743) to whom the plates devolved upon the former's death
Sir William Irby, 1st Bt. (1707-1775), who was raised to the peerage as Baron Boston in 1761, and thence by descent to
Greville, 7th Baron Boston (1889-1958), his sale at Monkshatch, Compton, 17 December 1941, lot 533a; twelve plates, purchased by Frederick Poke (£893/0/6); the remaining twelve plates, Lord Boston's sale at Christie's, London, 15 March 1950, lot 135, purchased by Thomas Lumley (£525)
Sotheby’s London, Important Silver, Gold Boxes and Fabergé, 20 November 2003, lot 184 (£120,000)

The Connoisseur, 'A Collection of silver-gilt assembled by Mr and Mrs Frederick Poke,' London, June 1957, pp. 21-23

Approx 12 with good clear hallmarks, others with slightly rubbed marks, the gilding is later, otherwise good condition
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The Paget crest below a baron’s coronet is thought to be that of Thomas Catesby Paget, styled Lord Paget (1689-1742), who in 1718 married Lady Elizabeth Egerton, youngest daughter of Scroop Egerton, 3^rd Earl of Bridgewater, and granddaughter of the celebrated Duke of Marlborough. Lord Paget predeceased his father Henry Paget, 1^st Earl of Uxbridge, whereupon the latter left his unsettled and acquired estates to his kinsman, Sir William Irby, 1^st Bt (afterward Lord Boston), whose descendants sold the plates in 1941 and 1950.