M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS

 

 

GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT & MALACHITE DESSERT SET
William Eley and William Fearn, London, 1821 (9)
Robert Platt, London, 1821 (2)
Walter Tweedie, London, 1824 (1)

 

 

 

Consisting of six silver-gilt knives and forks (12 total),
the figured malachite hafts of rectangular tapering form with canted corners and terminal,
below a heavy well cast and engraved shell and floral ferrule,
the silver gilt 4-tine forks with baluster shafts,
the blunt form knives engraved with an earl's coronet above the Coronet and Cypher ED,
for the Edward Digby, the 2nd Earl Digby

with decorative cutting to the edge and base;
the gilding nicely softened with age

 

Condition : Excellent, with crisp engraving and good marks; minor expected wear to the gilding;
almost no wear to the tips of the tines of blades;
most handles with expected small visible joints and minor nicks to areas of the malachite -
mostly visible under magnification only; a few with infilling to the malachite

 

Twelve Pieces

 

 The Forks, 7.5" Long / The Knives, 8.25" Long / Total Weight, 29.4 oz

 

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Five knives, and four forks with Eley & Fearn marks

 

 

Two forks with marks of Platt and Tweedie (the sixth knife also be Platt)

 

 

EDWARD DIGBY, the 2nd Earl Digby

 

 The coronet and cypher as engraved upon this

Set of 12 Pieces of George IV Silver Gilt and Malachite Dessert Cutlery

by William Eley & William Fearn hallmarked London 1821 (9 pieces),

Robert Platt hallmarked London 1821 (2 pieces); William Tweedie hallmarked London 1824 (1 piece)

is that of Edward Digby, the 2nd Earl Digby.

 

Given the dates of manufacture of this set of dessert cutlery

Earl Digby could have been the only earl to have commissioned such a set.

Edward Digby, the 2nd Earl Digby (born 6th January 1773 died 12th May 1856)

was the eldest son of the second marriage of his father, Henry Digby, the 1st Earl Digby to Mary Knowler.

He succeeded his father as the 2nd Earl Digby on the 25th September 1793,

along with the subsidiary peerage of the Viscountcy of Coleshill which was created with the Earldom of Digby

for his father within the Peerage of Great Britain on the 1st November 1790.

He also succeeded his father in the earlier creations of the Barony of Digby,

of Sherborne in the County of Dorset, within the same Peerage that was created on the 19th August 1765,

as the 2nd Baron as well as in the Barony of Digby, of Geashill in the King's County as the 8th Baron.

This barony was created for the Digbys on the 29th July 1620 within the Peerage of Ireland.

 

Edward lived the life of a country gentleman on his estates in Dorset.

He served as the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset for close on to fifty years from 1808 until his death

aged 83 in 1856, as well as being the Colonel of the Dorset Militia.

Edward never married so both the Earldom of Digby and the Viscountcy of Coleshill fell into

extinction on his death for want of a male heir,

although both the Baronies of Digby, of the Peerage of Ireland of 1620 and of the Peerage of Great Britain of 1765

which was in special remainder to the male issue of the first baron's father was inherited by

Edward's cousin, Edward St Vincent Digby, as the 9th Baron and the 3rd Baron respectively.

 

Heraldry Courtesy of John Tunesi, United Kingdom

 

 


 

Also See :

 

 

Victorian Silver-Gilt Dessert Service for 12, Hanoverian Pattern

Crested en suite with an eagle rising, beneath a baron's coronet
for The Right Honourable The Baron Farquhar, later Earl Farquhar

George Adams Jr, and Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater

Consisting of 12 pistol handled knives, 12 dessert spoons, 12 3-tine forks

Total Weight (36 pieces) : 64.6 oz

 

 


 

 

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Set of George IV Silver-Gilt & Malachine Dessert Knives & Forks, for 2nd Earl of Digby