An extraordinary pair of Victorian silver-gilt cups, Benjamin Preston, London, 1838 and 1839 the bowl of each in the form of a stylized floccosus mushroom growing from a circular base cast with woodland litter, one further inhabited by a lizard, the other with a lizard and beetle, the underside of one engraved in freehand script: '8785,' the other: '8894,' both numbers cancelled with Xs and freehand engraved, presumably at a later date with the number '0121' respectively 20.3 and 18.5cm., 8 and 7 1/4 in. high 961gr., 30oz. 18dwt.
An extraordinary pair of Victorian silver-gilt cups, Benjamin Preston, London, 1838 and 1839 the bowl of each in the form of a stylized floccosus mushroom growing from a circular base cast with woodland litter, one further inhabited by a lizard, the other with a lizard and beetle, the underside of one engraved in freehand script: '8785,' the other: '8894,' both numbers cancelled with Xs and freehand engraved, presumably at a later date with the number '0121' respectively 20.3 and 18.5cm., 8 and 7 1/4 in. high 961gr., 30oz. 18dwt.
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