A Victorian Silver Presentation Six-light Candelabrum Centerpiece on Mirror Plateau
£ 65,000.00  make enquiry
By Alexander Macrae London 1867
37 1/2 inches (95cm) overall height
The Inscription Reads:
Presented to Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson Baronet by the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance and the London Assurance and Alliance, Indemnity and Marine AssuranceCompanies, in acknowledgement of his able and gratuitous services in realizing for their benifit the property saved from the wreck of the Nichols I April 1869
Curtis Miranda Lampson was born in Vermont on 21 September 1806. He settled in England in 1830 where he was naturalized eighteen years later. Upon the formation of the company for laying the Atlantic telegraph cable in 1856 he was appointed one of its directors, later becoming its chairman. He was also a Deputy Governor of the Hudson Bay Company and one of the Trustees of the Peabody Trus, The charitable foundation established by his friend and fellow countryman, George Peabody for the relief of the poor in London. Lampson was made a baronet on 13th November 1866
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