TWO MILLIONS WORTH
WINDSOR’S ROYAL PLATE. The plate at Windsor is valued at nearly £2,000,000. It includes a gold service ordered by George IV., for 140 persons. There is also a variety of pieces brought from the colonial and Eastern possessions. The latter include a neaicock made of precious stones worth £30,000, and Tippo’s footstool, a tiger’s I head with crystal teeth, the tongue bejing a solid ingot of gold. Among the Royal plate at Windsor I Castle is a knife which was presented to George IV. by the cutlers of Sheffield. It has over 100 blades.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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