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AN IRISH PROVINCIAL GEORGE III SHELL BOWL LADLE, Cork c.1760, mark of John Nicolson, with Hanoverian pattern handle, (c.217g). 34cm long
John Nicolson I, Silversmith mentioned 1756; of Grand...
AN IRISH PROVINCIAL GEORGE III SHELL BOWL LADLE, Cork c.1760, mark of John Nicolson, with Hanoverian pattern handle, (c.217g). 34cm long
John Nicolson I, Silversmith mentioned 1756; of Grand Parade, married Catherine Warner at St. Nicholas Church, 12th March 1768; started sword cutting business 5th January 1769 opposite Bolands Lane; appointed a valuator of Holy Trinity parish 9th August 1783; registered as of Castle Street, Cork, in Dublin 1784; probably dead by 1805. Robert Day (1836-1914), the doyen of collectors and students of Cork silver, noted in his catalogue of his own collection at 4th April 1884, the John Nicholson owned the fields between the Gasworks and the Bandon Railway known as Nicholsons Fields. (Bowen and OBrien, 2005 pp180-186)
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