Presentation key
Category
Metalwork
Date
1892
Materials
Leather, Metal, Textile
Measurements
110 mm (Length)140 mm (Length)
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 887534
Summary
Silver coloured presentation key with enamel centre and silver St Petroc on the enamel presented to the Hon Mary Vere Agar-Robartes on the opening of the Bodmin Public Rooms 26 October 1892. Key is in brown leather box with velvet and silk lining.
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, later 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953 and continued to live there with his sisters, Everilda and Violet, until his death in 1966.
Marks and inscriptions
/ PRESENTED TO / The Hon / Mary Vere Agar Robartes / on the opening / of the / Bodmin Public Rooms / 26 October 1892 /