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
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£. s. d. |
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1839 Feby 20 30 Shell pat Silver Table Forks 24 do 15 £ do Spoons 18 do Dessert do. 12 do do Forks 24 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
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
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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 |
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166 17 6 16 0 0 3 5 |
ornament for Emma |
186 2 6 8. 10 |
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£177,, 12 6 179,, 12,, 6 Total expense of my plate of which 16 3 . 5 20 4 . 10 16 |
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£59,, 15 was given me |
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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
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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