Regimental Silver

Tennants are pleased to have been instructed by The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own) Regiment and The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers to sell 120 lots of silver to benefit The Royal Lancers Charitable Trust and the Fusiliers' Aid Society respectively. With estimates ranging from a low estimate of £60 to a high estimate of £3,500 the sale offers the chance to acquire an item of Military history to suit all budgets.

Among the highlights of the items from the Royal Fusiliers is a pair of George V silver copies of the Warwick vase. They were made in London in 1910 by the by Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company and were used as the Punjab Bengal Football Challenge cup. They will be offered with an estimate of £2,000-3,000 (all figures exclude buyer’s premium). There are also a number of Chinese Export silver chopstick rests. Each was retailed by Ye Change in Tianjin in the first half of the 20^th century and is set with a sycee of yuanbao ingot and engraved with the badge of the XX Fusiliers. They are offered as six lots with estimates of £400-600 for sets of four and £200-300 for pairs. The sale will also include a cigar-box, the hinged cover of which is applied with the enamelled badge of the Royal Fusiliers. It will be offered with an estimate of £300-500.

Among the highlights of the items from The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own) Regiment is The Sergeants-Mess XII (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers Silver Challenge Shield. The shield was made by Mappin and Webb in 1886 and is applied with a portrait bust of Queen Victoria and the badge of the XII Lancers. The back is engraved with the conditions of the presentations of the shield. Weighing over four kilograms the shield is offered with an estimate of £2,500-3,500. The sale also includes a George I silver tankard which was made by Richard Green in London in 1724. It is engraved with the skull and crossbones badge of the Lancers and with an inscription recording the presentation of the tankard to the XVII Lancers in 1877. The tankard is offered with an estimate of £800-1,200. Reflecting their history as a cavalry regiment the Lancers are also offering for sale a Victorian novelty silver lighter in the form of a drum horse and rider, each side mounted with a lighter in the form of a drum. The lighter was made in 1877 by Alexander Macrae and will be offered with an estimate of £700-1,000

The sale will also feature five works from a private collector by the artist Orlando Norie (1832-1901) depicting scenes of the 17^th Lancers in the Crimea at the Charge of Light Brigade. The pictures were purchased by the current owner at the sale of the contents of Cheselbourne Manor in 1999. Cheselbourne was owned by General Henry Roxby Benson (1818-1892), a 17^th Lancer who commanded a squadron of the Light Brigade in the night attack on the Russian outposts in the Crimea in February 1855. On his death the estates and, presumably, the Norie pictures were inherited by his son Lt.-Col. Richard Erle Benson (1862-1914) and subsequently his grandson Lt.-Col. John Roxby Erle Benson (1903-1999). John was to die unmarried so his estates and chattels were sold. The watercolours are offered as five lots, each with an estimate of £300-500.

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