The Crown Jewels of England

The regalia of England described in a Cassell edition limited to fourteen hundred copies, in the reign of George V.

The King's Plate

6 chapters in this part of The Crown Jewels of England.

The King's Plate

The Baptismal Font for Royal Princes_Made in the Reign of Charles II. - Used till 1840, when Queen Victoria ordered a New Font-Charles…

The King's Plate: Charles II

Charles II.'s font has the general appearance of a large, covered bowl standing on a slender, rounded column, giving a somewhat top-heavy…

The King's Plate: William and Mary

The dish is of silver-gilt, perfectly plain, twenty-five and three-quarter inches in diameter, and weighing two hundred and two ounces. The…

The King's Plate: George II

THE KING'S PLATE coronation of Queen Anne no less than four hundred and thirty-two ounces of pure gold were used, and again in the reigns…

The King's Plate: George

The height of these salts is sixteen and a quarter inches, and they have a diameter at the base of nine and three-quarter inches. They bear…

The King's Plate: King George

The remaining maces are all made on the same plan, but they are larger, and differ in the details of the ornamentation, and also in the…

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