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SPOON, DESSERT - CHRISTENING SET

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c. 1885

Overview

Dessert size and shaped bowl with raised ornate leafy pattern on the convex side of the body starting from the tang and spreading up body. Handle is narrowest near the tang broadening to a rounded end with the same leafy pattern etched on both sides with the initials [S T L] engraved within the pattern. There are indistinct hallmarks on the handle near the tang also a series raised ridges above the hallmarks.

Historical information

Made by Martin Hall & Co., Ltd in Sheffield between 1875 to 1876. Samuel Thomas Lindsey was born in Swaffhelm England in 1885 and died in Armadale in 1963. This silver cutlery set was a gift given to Samuel at his christening. He migrated to Australia in the early 1900s and in 1911 became an ordained priest,serving in many different locations including St. Albans Highgate 1910-1912 St. Georges Cathedral 1912-1915 St. Marys West Perth 1915-1917 Brookton1917-1920 Kellerberrin 1920-19221 Gingin 1921-1925 Armadale 1925-1935 Maylands 1936-1947 Leederville 1947-1949.He retired in 1949 to live in Armadale, but gave most of his time to the Church of England Armadale.

He married Cecily Clifton in 1913.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2005.5C

Material

Silver

Inscriptions and markings

Hallmarks on the bowl [crown / lion passant / letter H / Queen's head] maker's mark [R M E H]

Year

c. 1885

Statement of significance

This is part of a collection of items used by Samuel and Cecily Lindsey in the mid 1900s. Samuel was an Anglican priest who worked at a variety of ministries across Western Australia including St Matthew's Church in Armadale between c1925 and 1935. The Lindsey family would have lived at the nearby Rectory building located on Prospect Road. Following Samuel's retirement in 1949 he and Cecily moved back to Armadale where they lived until the mid 1960s.

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