A Fine Regency Standish by Edwards, London 1817

A very fine quality rosewood and brass mounted portable standish (inkstand) with three original silver mounted glass inkwells hallmarked for 1817 by the leading London maker Edwards. Each silver cap is engraved with the crest of a lion passant surmounting a coronet, and the drawer retains its original trade label for Edwards of 21 King Street and Bloomsbury Square, London.
It is extremely rare to find labeled pieces by Edwards and this label is in exceptional condition.

David Edwards, a very fashionable maker of writing and dressing cases was the inventor of patent campaign and military traveling writing cases and was appointed supplier of such to the Royal family in 1813 until his death in 1848.

See also a fine quality document box made for George Arney, the second Attorney General of New Zealand previously offered by us and now in the collection of The High Court, Wellington, New Zealand.

Provenance: The crest on a chapeau, gu., turned up, erm., a lion, statant, or, tail extended is for the Chetwynd-Talbot family, Earls and Barons Talbot and Viscount Ingestrie.