The largest old silver wine cistern is to he found, along with many other notable pieces of old English silver, in the possession of the Czar of Russia. It weighs 8000oz, and can hold sixty gallons. When funds were being got up, in 1735, to build a bridge over the Thames at Westminster, a lottery was organised, and this cistern was the chief prize. AMr Barran is known to have drawn it, but how it eventually joined the plate in the Winter Palace at) Petrograd has not been discovered.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12069, 26 July 1917, Page 8
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89Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Star (Christchurch), Issue 12069, 26 July 1917, Page 8
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