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Trumpet-shaped and on pedestal foot. Two scroll handles with leaf
decoration. Applied scroll and leaf border around top edge, centre and
foot. Applied vine leaf, grape and tendril decoration on lower half.
Inscription within laurel wreath – on obverse side: "Presented to John Fairbairn Esq., Editor of the South African Advertiser Newspaper by a
number of inhabitants of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
February, 1829." On the reverse: "In testimony of their sense of the
able, consistent and independent manner in which that Journal has been
conducted by him, and of their gratitude for his exertions in
endeavouring to procure for the Colony the advantages of a Free
Press." On stand with four legs with leaf and scroll decoration and paw feet,
linked by stretchers with shell and leaf decoration.
In wooden case. Estate Late John Fairbairn. (SACHM84/663)
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