Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge, 15 inch silver gilt bowl, made by Thomas Bolton, is in one of the cases. Its inscription reads. "The gift of the Honourable City of Dublin to Capt. George Sanders, commander of Her Majesty's ship Seaforth, for his signal services in taking two French privateers, being the first that were brought into this harbour this war. Anno...
Perhaps the most imposing of the items on exhibit are two Irish House of Commons Maces, made of silver gilt in London, 1765. The maces were symbols of office of the Lord Chancellor, who presided in the House of Lords, and of the Speaker of the House of Commons. This parliament might have become completely autonomous, but was abolished by the Act of Union of 1800, which united the British and Irish parliaments as one legislative body in London...
...their stories recounts that during a diplomatic dinner in a Balkan capital the British Ambassador missed his watch and informed his host. Unembarrassed, the host announced: "During dinner someone took his neighbor's watch. I shall place a silver platter on the table, the lights will be turned out for a minute, and I expect the watch to be placed on the platter." When the lights came on, the platter contained six watches. According to another version, the platter was missing...
Gertrude's Men. Meanwhile she designed a private setting appropriate to one of the theatre's swankiest headliners. At various times she had lavish apartments or penthouses on or just off Fifth Avenue, and a London home with hundreds of mirrors and curtains of solid silver sequins. One of her London dressing rooms was described as ua corner of a dream." Through her salons moved such guests as Edward of Wales (who gave her his picture inscribed "To Gertrude?Edward P."); Manhattan Socialite Bertrand L. Taylor; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (who gave her a 30-foot cabin cruiser); Peruvian Artist Reynaldo...
...most prized objects is the decorative silver gift bowl of Monteith, dated...