Each of octagonal baluster shape on stepped foot, finely engraved with panels of latticework and scrolls, the covers pierced on each panel with a campana vase and flowers, and engraved with trelliswork, marked on undersides, the larger further marked on flange of cover
8 in. (20.5 cm.) and 6¹⁄₂ in. (16.5 cm.) high
The larger 16 oz. 4 dwt. (506 gr.), the pair 15 oz. 10 dwt. (482 gr.)

Sir Henry Thompson 1st Bt. (1820-1904), surgeon and polymath,
The Executors of the late Sir Henry Thompson Bart., of 35 Wimpole Street; Christie's, London; 30 May 1904, lot 86 (£206 to S. J. Phillps), in oak case.
with S. J. Phillips Ltd., London,
Stuart Albert Samuel Montague, 3rd Baron Swaythling (1898-1990) by 1928,
The Rt. Hon. Lord Swaythling, removed from Townhill Park, Southampton; 17 July 1946, lot 103 unsold and lot 104, withdrawn, then by descent.

London, Olympia, The Daily Telegraph International Exhibition of Antiques and Works of Art, 1928, no. S95 (Lord Swaythling).

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The de Lamerie casters were deemed to be 'duty dodgers' by the Antique Plate Committee at the Goldsmiths' Hall, London. The hallmarks on a 'Duty Dodger' would have been cut out from an existing hallmarked object but of a lighter weight by the silversmith who manufactured the piece, thus evading the tax of one shilling per ounce for hallmarked silver. Hallmarks on the base of casters at this date were usually struck in a cluster as found on the Cuny caster. When casters are marked with the hallmarks in a line, as on the Lamerie examples, they thought to be duty dodgers.