RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1839.02.20-03.19. Receipt / List of silver bought of Lambert & Rawlings, Coventry Street, London. CUL-DAR262.9.1-2. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.


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BOUGHT of LAMBERT & RAWLINGS.

Goldsmiths, Jewellers & Silversmiths

C Darwin Esqr

 

£. s. d.

 

1839 Feby 20 30 Shell pat Silver Table Forks

24 do 15 £ do Spoons

18 do Dessert do.

12 do do Forks

24 12 do Tea Spoons

2 do Gravy do

3 do Sauce Ladles

1 do Mustard Ladle

4 do Salt Ladles

1 pair do Sugar Tongs

1 do Butter Knife

Chased Silver Coffee Pot

do Mustard do

4 Plated Table Candlesticks 60//

2 do Chamber do 21/.

Plated Snuffler Tray 25/.

2 round Plated Maîtres 46/.

Plated Bread Basket 75/.

2Plated Decanter Stands with Plated bottoms

12 do Tea Spoons

1 Balanced handle Carving Knife

Engraving Crest

March 1 Making gold & Diamond & Emerald Bracelet

Carried forward

37,, 10,, ─

30,, ─,, ─

14,, 5,, ─

9,, 10,, ─

6,, ─,,─

5,, 6,, ─

4,, ─,, ─

 10,, ─

1,, 15,, ─

 18,, ─

1,, ─,, ─

13,, 10,, ─

4,, ─,, ─

5,, 12,,─

2,, ─,,─

1,, 4 ,,─

2,, 10,, ─

3,, 10,, ─

1,, 18,,─

6,, ─

 6,, ─

3,, ─,,─

 

8,, 10,, ─

£164,, ─ ,,─

 

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To amount brought forward £164

By 4 table Candlesticks £20─

Snuffler Tray 4.10

Basin & Enver 16 ─ ─

12 Tea & 4 Salt Spoon 2 11─

 

March 19 Mounting Diamonds as Clustre ring

Plated Fish Knife

 

P. Sugar Tongs (small)

Plated cruet Frame to glasses

 

 

 

 

 

43,, 1,,─

£120,, 19,,─

2,, 10,, ─

 15,,─

£124,, 4,, ─

 7. 60

 1.15

£126.2.6

 

Silr Tea Pot £16

A do Toast rack £3.5-

Asparagus Helper – given me by Mr Herbert

Soup turin & ladle by Mr Father

 

Fish knife

Sugar tong

Cruet stand

164 0 6

     15

      7 6

1 15

 

166 17 6

16 0 0

3 5

 

ornament for Emma

186 2 6

   8. 10

 

£177,, 12 6

179,, 12,, 6

Total expense of my plate of which

16

3 . 5

20

 4 . 10

16

 

£59,, 15 was given me

 

[2]

Charles Darwin Esqr February 20th 1839

Error on 2 round Plated Maîtres

46/ea: changed in amount £2,, 10,, in lieu of £4,,10,,─

Recd for L & R

John Swimm


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