William IV Cast Silver Armorial Wine Label 'Brandy' Earl of Ilchester Fox-Strangeways

A very fine quality William IV heavy cast silver Armorial Wine Label, depicting a Fox sejant (seated) surmounting a scrolled nameplate with raised border, pierced for Brandy.

By Rawlings & Summers, London, 1836.

One from the only known set of six. An example for Madeira in the Cropper Collection in the V&A Museum. An example for Whiskey illustrated in 'Wine Labels 1730-2003' edited by John Salter, page 95, fig' 361.

Henry Stephen Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester, PC (21 February 1787 – 8 January 1858), styled Lord Stavordale from birth until 1802, was a British peer and Whig politician. He served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard under Lord Melbourne from 1835 to 1841. Stavordale was the eldest son of Henry Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester, and Mary Theresa O'Grady, daughter of Standish O'Grady. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, which later (1814) awarded him a DCL.

Reserved - £1,100.00