Success to the Borrowdale fob-seal with monogrammed initials H.R. for Master Hobson Reed

by Borrowdale, Hobson Reed, master of the Borrowdale

A$65,000 · Offered by Hordern House

Sunderland? no maker's mark, circa 1786. Silver fob-seal, 44 x 30 mm., ornate scroll-work suspension loop above an oval swivel seal with, on the obverse, an engraved depiction of a three-masted vessel and the caption Success to the Borrowdale , on the reverse, the monogram H.R. , the whole decorated with leaves and sprig borders to the edges and rim; very fine. With the First Fleet to Botany Bay

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