ROYAL GOLD PLATE.
The plate at Windsor is valued at nearly £2,000,000. It includes a gold service, ordered by George IV., for 140 persons, and one of the finest winecoolers in the world, added to the collection by the same monarch; a shield formed of snuff boxes, worth £9OOO, and 30 dozen plates worth £IO,OOO. There is also a variety of pieces brought from the Colonial and Eastern possessions. The latter include a peacock made of precious stones of every description, worth £30,000. and Tippoo’s footstool, a tiger’s head with crystal teeth, the tongue being a solid ingot of gold. Among the Royal plate at Windsor Castle is a knife which was presented to George IV. by the cutlers of Sheffield. It has over idO blades.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9836, 2 April 1923, Page 8
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126ROYAL GOLD PLATE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9836, 2 April 1923, Page 8
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