Lot 208
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A wooden quaich
Scottish Silver & Accessories | 388
Auction: 19 August 2013 at 15:00 BST
Estimate: £300 - £500
Description
mounts unmarked, the deep bowl with twin integral lugs, set with thistles displayed, the centre of the bowl with circular boss engraved d 'GU MA SLAN A CHI MI'; together with a modern silver mounted wooden quaich by P Campbell of Tobermory, Edinburgh 1992, of conventional form with Celtic borders and twin lugs
Dimensions
18.5cm and 12cm wide across lugs
Footnote
Notes: sold with accompanying letters for Victoria & Albert museum discussing the earlier quaich and the inscriptions.
the Gaelic inscription translate as 'Here's that healthy him (or her) I may see'