BEAKERS - TUMBLER CUPS - GOBLETS

Discover our Aurum Silver "blackburn cathedral" goblet

Engraved to base:

NUMBER 630 OF A LIMITED EDITION OF 750 MADE BY ORDER OF THE PROVOST AND CHAPTER OF BLACKBURN TO COMMEMORATE THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CATHEDRAL IN 1976 AND ITS CONSECRATION IN 1977

 Booklet certificate signed by Lawrence Jackson, Provost of Blackburn

Edition of:                                 750

Designer:                     Hector Miller

Maker:                         Hector Miller

Maker’s Mark:            HM

Weight:                       297 gm

Height:                       16.5 cm                                   Cost new:        £162

The goblets stem is formed of a Madonna Lily, which for centuries has symbolised the Virgin Mary, the only lily of true pure whiteness. The three open blooms are overlaid with rhodium: one of the whitest metals known, akin to platinum but more precious. Surrounding the base of the stem are three Lancastrian roses; the geographical boundaries of the diocese and Lancashire are practically the same.

On 26th October 1976 the Provost presented the First of these to HM The Queen, received by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire on her behalf.

London 1973

This was the 6th item of 59 made for John Sutherland-Hawes' Aurum Designs

In original white box with certificate booklet

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Engraved to base:

NUMBER 43 OF A LIMITED EDITION OF 673 MADE BY ORDER OF THE DEAN & CHAPTER OF ELY TO COMMEMORATE THE THIRTEENTH CENTENARY OF THE FOUNDATION IN 673 AD

Booklet certificate signed by M S Carey, Dean of Ely

Edition of:                               673

Designer:                     John Willmin

Maker:                         Raymond Crisp

Sponsor’s Mark:        JMW

Weight:                       17oz

Height:                        16.5 cm                                   Cost new:        £96

 The Isle of Ely was an island in a sea marsh until the seventeenth century. The long connection with the sea is reflected in the design of the goblet with the mermaid holding the three keys of Ely, the Cathedral’s heraldic device. The octagonal stem with its wave-like texture is based on the great vault surmounted by a tower of oak

Engraved to base:

NUMBER 587 OF A LIMITED EDITION OF 600 MADE BY ORDER OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ST PAUL’S TO COMMEMORATE THE 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE CATHEDRAL IN 1675

Booklet certificate signed by Martin Sullivan, Dean of St Paul’s

Edition of:                   600

Designer:                     Jocelyn Burton

Maker:                        Hector Miller –Stuart Devlin Workshop

Maker’s Mark:             JB

Weight:                        311g

Height:                        16 cm                                      Cost new:        £127

Before starting the rebuilding of St Paul’s following the Great Fire, Christopher Wren stood on the empty site and called for a stone to mark the centre of the new building. A workman pulled a fragment of an old gravestone from the rubble and handed it to him: it was inscribed ‘Resurgem’ - ‘I shall rise again’. It had already been rebuilt three times and now for the fourth, like a phoenix from the ashes. Over the great south door of the completed cathedral stands the carved phoenix which he placed there, above the solitary word ‘Resurgem’

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