Devizes pair of maces, Full Size (drawing)

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Identification note: Ornate mace with decorated shaft of thistles and "york" roses. Pommel similar. Bulbous head with 4 figures, between figures a thistle crown with initials CR and a trefoil with initials CR. Crown on top with orb and cross.

Identification note: Page top has: (Reproduced in "Corporation plate of England and Wales" and in "Wilts Arch. Mag" Dec 1894

Identification note: catalogue card has "Engraved and published in WAM vol 28, p 31, 1896" on the back

Summary: signed pen drawing of town mace (1 or 2), Devizes Town Hall, 1894 ?, by E.H.Goddard

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