Child's rattle
Category
Childcare objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Silver
Measurements
100 mm (L)
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Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 454516
Summary
Silver teething rattle with bells. The coral piece is missing. Very finely engraved in the style of the end of the 18th century. No maker's mark or hall marks.
Provenance
A list of items the archives (D1799 E262) signed by W E Blathwayt Dec 1899 includes among items removed from GWB jr drawer that had belonged to GWB coral and bells. So this may have been the teething rattle of George William Blathwayt born in 1797. Indigenous collection purchased by Ministry of works in 1956 and given to Dyrham Park in 1961.