Auction Catalogue

12 & 13 December 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 869

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13 December 2012

Estimate: £250–£350

Royal Dockyard Battalion Officers’ Mess Dessert Plate. A very rare example (21.8 cms) of rococo outline, the outer rim decorated in gold, pale green and mauve, the rim also decorated in mauve with crowned oak sprays enclosing a fouled anchor, the central reserve is plain. The reverse is impressed ‘Copeland’ over St. Edward’s crown, also marked with the broad arrow c. 1840 - 58, a small discoloured mark in the pale green decoration of the rim otherwise in very good condition £250-350