Each shaped circular, the gadrooned rims with double-shells at intervals, the border engraved with a coat-of-arms beneath an earl's coronet, the opposite side with later initials HP, marked to undersides, stamped 775, and engraved with number and weight, later engraved to underside Hunt Phelan May 18, 1940
10³⁄₈ in. (26.5 cm.) diameter
255 oz. 2 dwt. (7,934 gr.)

Probably John Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater (1753-1823), who rebuilt Ashridge Park, Hertfordshire, between 1808 and 1820, presumably by descent to his niece Sophia Hume (d.1814) who married, John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow (d.1853), in 1810, then by descent to
Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow (1899–1978);
Christie’s London, 13 March 1929, lot 42 (part), (£5,530 to S. H. Harris).
Hunter C. Phelan (1893-1974) of Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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The coat-of-arms are those of Egerton quartering others with Haynes in pretence, for John Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater (1753-1823) and his wife Charlotte Catherine Anne (d.1849), only daughter and heir of Samuel Haynes, whom he married in 1783.