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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888. Excerpt: ... Yin. NOTICE OF A FINELY ORNAMENTED CHALICE OF SILVER, PARCELGILT, THE PROPERTY OF R. B. M. MACLEOD, Esq. Op Cadboll. By NORMAN MACPHERSON, LL.D., Sheriff Of Galloway, Vice-president. It is to be regretted that so little is known respecting this cup or chalice (Fig. 1.), remarkable no less for the grace of its form than for that of the twelve engraved panels on its bowl. Fig. 1. Chalice of Silver, the property of R. B. iE. Macleod, Esq., of Cadboll. It was exhibited in Edinburgh at the International Exhibition of 1886, by R. B. JE. Macleod, Esq., of Cadboll, in Ross-shire, who has allowed it also to be exhibited here, and to be reproduced in electrotype for the Museum. All he could tell of its history was that when Invergordon Castle was burned, less than a century ago, this cup and another (both silver, parcelgilt) were saved, and that family tradition said that one or, both were spoil from a ship of the Spanish Armada, wrecked on the island of Lewis, and thus came into the hands of the chief of the Lewis branch of Macleods from whom the Macleods of Cadboll are descended. On one of the cups, which is of a well-known English type, and bears an English hall-mark, there is the inscription" 1588, Macleod Of Lews," in letters and figures of a style apparently much later than that date. This suggests that the tradition was associated with that particular cup, and that the date was put on it in order to preserve the tradition, but its hall-mark makes it most unlikely that it could have been found in a Spanish ship. The other cup (that which has been reproduced, and which is here illustrated) may possibly be of foreign origin. It has no hall-mark. In the end of the sixteenth century it was not uncommon to find foreign plate without hall-marks, and the same want w...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235748995
- ISBN 13 9781235748998
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages142
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