A VICTORIAN SILVER TOAST RACK, MAKER'S MARK ?H, LONDON, 1838 |

with seven-bars, gadrooned rim, shell and leaf-capped scroll handle, engraved with the Smith crest and garter, on four acanthus paw feet, 16.5 cm. long, 6¼ in.; two further silver examples; one, George III, John Cope Folkard, London, 1819, plain oval, 15.5cm. long, 6in.; the other, George IV, Charles Fox, London, 1825, oval with leaf-capped scrolling handle, on four foliate feet, engraved with the Smith crest, 18cm. long, 7in., and an electroplated six-bar example (4)

All in good condition with clear marks. Inventory of the Property of Guy O. Smith at 19 Hill Street, 1927, possibly one described 'Silver / A toast rack, six divisions [?] Victorian'
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