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Our Guarantee:

i- We believe that Ebay's money back guarantee suffices to ensure our items' actual condition to correspond with the description provided in the listing of the items. Hence, we feel any additional "return policy" would be redundant;

ii- More importantly, however, to protect our clients against buying counterfeits as well as misrepresentations of provenance, we offer a unique , with guarantee of authenticity with no time-limit constraints.

We feel a guarantee of authenticity provides ironclad protection to Ebay buyers; whereas, a "14, or even 30, day return policy" could fail miserably in many cases involving antique silver.

Consider, for the sake of argument, the case of an unsuspecting buyer who spends over $10,000 on a silver item posed as original on the pretext that it was acquired from the estate of a Russian family who had fled to Canada in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

Upon receiving the item, the purchaser would inspect it for condition issues, and once satisfied would probably leave the seller a positive feedback comment.

Months, if not years, later the purchaser decides to have the item appraised. It would be then that he/she finds out about the actual provenance of the item: an auction house whose description of the item explicitly mentions "bearing questionable marks" for a Faberge work-master.

PRESENTED IS AN IMPORTANT QUEEN ANNE BRITANNIA STANDARD LADY TANKARD CREATED BY THE SELDOM-ENCOUNTERED LONDON MAKER 'FRANCIS GARTHORNE' IN 1707;

PRESENTED IS AN IMPORTANT QUEEN ANNE BRITANNIA STANDARD LADY TANKARD CREATED BY THE SELDOM-ENCOUNTERED LONDON MAKER 'FRANCIS GARTHORNE' IN 1707;

FRANCIS GARTHORNE (ACTIVE 1677 TO 1727) WAS EXTENSIVELY EMPLOYED IN THE COURTS OF CHARLES II, JAMES II, WILLIAM & MARY, WILLIAM III, QUEEN ANNE AND GEORGE I AS THE ROYAL SILVERSMITH. MOST OF HIS CREATIONS ARE ON EXHIBIT IN THE ROYAL COLLECTION AND MAJOR MUSEUMS;

IN 2001, THE TREASURY OF GREAT BRITAIN, IN AN UNPRECEDENTED ACTION, MOVED TO WITHDREW FOUR FRANCIS GARTHORNE LOTS FROM A SALE AT BONHAMS AUCTION HOUSE ON THE GROUNDS THAT THEY ARE OF SUCH HISTORICAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE THAT THEY CAN NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE;

OF THE FEW FRANCIS GARTHORNE CREATIONS OFFERED AT AUCTION ONE CAN REFER TO A ROYAL SEAL BOX FOR GEORGE I (CHRISTIES, JUNE 2010) AND A KING GEORGE II CORONATION CANOPY BELL (CHRISTIES, NOVEMBER 2009) FETCHING THE EQUIVALENTS OF $25,498 AND $22,798, RESPECTIVELY;

OF CLASSIC EARLY TANKARD FORM, WITH TAPERED BODY, HEAVY TURNED BASE, LOW FLAT DOMED COVER, VOLUTE THUMB-PIECE, AND SERPENTINE HANDLE, STEPPED-UP BASE;

COMPLETE SET OF MARKS FOR FRANCIS GARTHORNE, BRITANNIA STANDARD, CITY OF LONDON AND 1707 ON THE BODY AT RIGHT OF HANDLE, AND ON LID IN FRONT OF THE THUMB-PIECE. ADDITIONAL MAKER MARK ON HANDLE;

SUBSTANTIALLY FINE CONDITION-- FEW SOFT IMPRESSIONS- SOME UNDER-SOLDERING TO THE HANDLE AND ITS EDGES THE THE COVER CLOSES FLUSH, NO AGE-DISCOLORATION AS COMMONLY SEEN ON BRITANNIA SILVER OF THIS PERIOD, NO REPAIRS, AND NO EVIDENCE OF ERASURE;

HEIGHT TO TIP OF THUMB-PIECE: 6 2/3";

WEIGHT: 21 6/10 STANDARD OUNCES

(612 GRAMS)