Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

A large Victorian silver and enamel aide memoire, of foldover rectangular form, the front enamelled with initials ‘J.M.A’. with facsimile donor’s signature below, in blue enamel, reading ‘from Sir T. Freake’, the sprung cover opening to reveal the parcel gilt interior enclosing blue silk covered notebook, with later unassociated pencil contained within retaining bar, by maker Aldred Fuller, London 1886, retailed by ‘Jones, 25 Bould. des Capucines, Paris’ and ‘41 St James Street, London’, dimensions 12.3 x 9.0 x 1.1cm. £300-£360

The donor was probably Sir Thomas George Freake, 2nd Baronet (1848-1920).

The Freake Baronetcy of Cromwell House in the Parish of St Mary Abbots, Kensington and Fulwell Park in the Parish of Twickenham, was created on 23 May 1882 for the architect, builder and philanthropist Charles Freake.

The second Baronet, grandson of Charles Wright, graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge and in 1868 married Frederica, daughter of Col. F. T. Maitland in Holywich, Sussex. He was a member of the Conservative, Ranelagh and Hurlingham clubs, living for some time at 43 Sloane Street. He was Mayor of Dartmouth, Devon, in 1897.

The Baronetcy became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1951.