ARMS AND THE TEAPOT
TO PAY FOR ARMORIAL BEARINGS A SIGN OF RESPECTABILITY <By Air Mail—From a Special Correspondent) LONDON, sth March. There has been a storm over a teapo at Uxbridge, Middlesex Mrs Claric H. M. Naylor-Davidson, 75-year-oli widow of a doctor, was fined 10s a Uxbridge Police Court this week fo not paying armorial bearings duty 01 a cracked teapot and other articles o crockery. Although Mrs Naylor-Davidson had paid the duty for twenty years, she said in a letter to the court:— “1 think armorial bearings are a sign of respectability that is wanted in this country, and asking for payment is farcical and a mean affront.” Later she said: “The armorial bearings on the china are those of my late husband and come from India. The teapot is badly cracked and has been repaired several times. The china is not valuable. “It is a waste of money to go on paying this guinea a year Armorial bearings don’t mean very much nowadays” Some time ago Mrs Naylor-Davidson wrote a book about her house, in which she offered to conduct visitors on a fifteen minute tour of the rooms for a guinea a person.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19380328.2.97
Bibliographic details
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 28 March 1938, Page 9
Word Count
197ARMS AND THE TEAPOT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 28 March 1938, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Nelson Evening Mail. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in