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Lobed vase form with everted rim, the lower body applied with leaves and with two leafy reeded loop handles, raised on a shell-work base, both sides with engraved crest and motto, the underside further engraved FORMERLY BELONGING TO / LORD AMHERST, with removable liner, marked on underside
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
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The crest is that of Webster for Baron Dickinson Webster (1818–1860) of Penns Hall, Sutton Coldfield. The son of Joseph Webster, Baron was in fact his first name and not a title of rank. Webster had many business interest in the railways as well as in the manufacture of steel wire. His company, Webster & Horsfall Limited of Hay Mills Birmingham, manufactured the steel wire which encased the first successful Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable laid in 1866.

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