A pair of George II sterling silver trencher salts, London 1732 by Edward Wood (first reg. 18^th Aug 1722)

Of waisted oval form with dished centres, the sides later engraved with crests firstly upon a mount a greyhound's head erased argent collared and with a line affixed thereto and in front a fountain and secondly upon a mount a camel statant holding in the mouth a rose. The underside engraved with initials A over E M in Roman script. Each fully marked to the underside. (2)

Length – 8.7 cm / 3.4 inches

Weight – 97 grams / 3.12 ozt

The first crest is for Day

The second crest is for Cripps

For Francis Henry Cripps-Day, (1864 - 1961) the second son of William Henry Day, M.D., of Holly Hill, Meopham in Kent and Stratton St Margarets in Wiltshire, and Emma, elder daughter of William Cripps Kitchener, of Newmarket in Suffolk. He was educated at the High School of Newcastle under Lyme and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted 12 April 1882, took his B.A. in 1885, and his M.A. in 1889. A second lieutenant in the 21st Hussars, in 1887, and a Lieutenant in 1889, he resigned his commission in 1890. He was admitted to the Middle Temple, called to the bar in 1894, and practiced on the Oxford circuit. He assumed the additional name and arms of Cripps 3 July 1886. In 1891 he married Martha Inez, daughter of George Maurice de Klopka, of Hungary. His library was sold at Sotheby's 15 February 1932 and 1 July 1938.