Taperstick
Category
Silver
Date
1898
Materials
Silver.
Order this imageCollection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1656428.1
Summary
A taperstick, part of a Victorian silver inkstand, D & J. Wellby, London, 1898, shaped oblong form, fitted with central wafer box, surmounted by taperstick and two silver mounted glass inkwells, Chippendale border and hoof supports, also inscribed "Presented to Viscount Castlereagh..... November 1899".
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2013