A VICTORIAN SILVER PRESENTATION GOBLET, JAMES ALDRIDGE, LONDON, 1857
the campana shaped body chased with a bacchanal surrounding a scroll edged cartouche with engraved inscription, further chased with a band of acanthus above the stem and a band of grape-laded vines to the foot, gilt interior, 21.5cm high, 611g The inscription reads: Presented to Captn. Douglas F. Hay by the Officers of Detachments 3rd Dragoon Guards & 86th Regt., November 10th, 1857 Following the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, the East India Company rushed to charter ships to transfer troops from Britain to the subcontinent. After landing in Bombay on 10 November 1857 with reinforcements for the 86th Regiment (already stationed in the Bombay Presidency) and squadrons of the 3rd Dragoon Guards (who were being redirected to India), officers of these regiments evidently organised for this cup to be presented to the captain of their transport ship, Merchant Navy Shipmaster Douglas F. Hay (born c.1825), in gratitude for their safe passage.the campana shaped body chased with a bacchanal surrounding a scroll edged cartouche with engraved inscription, further chased with a band of acanthus above the stem and a band of grape-laded vines to the foot, gilt interior, 21.5cm high, 611g The inscription reads: Presented to Captn. Douglas F. Hay by the Officers of Detachments 3rd Dragoon Guards & 86th Regt., November 10th, 1857 Following the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, the East India Company rushed to charter ships to transfer troops from Britain to the subcontinent. After landing in Bombay on 10 November 1857 with reinforcements for the 86th Regiment (already stationed in the Bombay Presidency) and squadrons of the 3rd Dragoon Guards (who were being redirected to India), officers of these regiments evidently organised for this cup to be presented to the captain of their transport ship, Merchant Navy Shipmaster Douglas F. Hay (born c.1825), in gratitude for their safe passage.
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the campana shaped body chased with a bacchanal surrounding a scroll edged cartouche with engraved inscription, further chased with a band of acanthus above the stem and a band of grape-laded vines to the foot, gilt interior, 21.5cm high, 611g The inscription reads: Presented to Captn. Douglas F. Hay by the Officers of Detachments 3rd Dragoon Guards & 86th Regt., November 10th, 1857 Following the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, the East India Company rushed to charter ships to transfer troops from Britain to the subcontinent. After landing in Bombay on 10 November 1857 with reinforcements for the 86th Regiment (already stationed in the Bombay Presidency) and squadrons of the 3rd Dragoon Guards (who were being redirected to India), officers of these regiments evidently organised for this cup to be presented to the captain of their transport ship, Merchant Navy Shipmaster Douglas F. Hay (born c.1825), in gratitude for their safe passage.the campana shaped body chased with a bacchanal surrounding a scroll edged cartouche with engraved inscription, further chased with a band of acanthus above the stem and a band of grape-laded vines to the foot, gilt interior, 21.5cm high, 611g The inscription reads: Presented to Captn. Douglas F. Hay by the Officers of Detachments 3rd Dragoon Guards & 86th Regt., November 10th, 1857 Following the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, the East India Company rushed to charter ships to transfer troops from Britain to the subcontinent. After landing in Bombay on 10 November 1857 with reinforcements for the 86th Regiment (already stationed in the Bombay Presidency) and squadrons of the 3rd Dragoon Guards (who were being redirected to India), officers of these regiments evidently organised for this cup to be presented to the captain of their transport ship, Merchant Navy Shipmaster Douglas F. Hay (born c.1825), in gratitude for their safe passage.
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