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Auction 160  5-6 Jun 2019
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Lot 1134

Estimate: 900 GBP
Price realized: 700 GBP
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Gardens, LAMBETH, Vauxhall Gardens, Arion, uniface silver, unsigned [by R. Yeo after W. Hogarth], Arion holding lyre, riding on dolphin, plain border, back named (Earl of Scarborough), 37 x 33mm, 8.43g (W 1344; D & W 83/270). Very fine and very rare; no integral loop for suspension £900-£1,200

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Provenance: Bt T. Millett May 2001.

Thomas Lumley, later Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarborough, KB (1691-1752), entered the Army during the latter years of Queen Anne's reign and was appointed a Lt.-Col. in what became the 37th (North Hampshire) Regt. He served as MP for Arundel, 1722-7, and for Lincolnshire, 1727-40, when he inherited his elder brother's titles. From 1716 to 1731 he was clerk of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster; he was an equerry to George, Prince of Wales in 1726-7, and treasurer to Frederick, Prince of Wales, from 1738 until the latter's death in 1751
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