Oliver Cromwell’s Watch »
A mid-17th Century Puritan silver fob watch by William Clay, circa 1645, verge movement with gut fusee and worm-and-wheel set up, the top plate with pierced balance cock engraved William Clay fecit, supported on truncated pyramidal Egyptian pillars, the circular face having a single steel beetle hand, Roman numerals and 15-minute chapter within an outer […]
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This two handled silver cup was made by London silversmith Paul Crespin in 1743. It was presented to Prince Charles Edward Stuart by a Jacobite sympathiser and engraved with his cypher as the Jacobite Prince of Wales. Following the Battle of Culloden and the collapse of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, the cup was given to […]
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