Lot 179

Overall wear and surface scratches consistent with age and use, small dent and associated scratch to rear of body.


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The Estate of LJJ Crofton, Canberra

These are the arms of Lambert impaling Eliot(t) for Edward Lambert (1715-1785), a merchant of St. George's, Queen's Square, Middlesex and his first wife Ann Eliot (1713-1750), daughter of John Eliot, a London merchant. They were married at St. James's Piccadilly on 26 January 1749. Their memorial can be found in the south chancel of Banstead Church as recorded in F. A. Heygate-Lambert, The Registers of Banstead in the County of Surrey, 1547-1789, London, 1896, pp. 116-117.