Plate presented to General Wemyss, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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Plate presented to General Wemyss, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Plate presented to General Wemyss, 1850. This handsome piece of plate has just been presented by the town of Manchester to Major-General Wemyss, C.B. "in testimony of their esteem and regard, and of the high sense which they entertain of the efficient manner in which, during a period of twelve years he has discharged the important duties of Assistant Adjutant-General of the Northern District"...It is a massive Candelabrum, thirty-two inches in height; the design consisting of an oak-tree upon a rough base of rock; the branches supporting the lights, and a central vase, with a cut-glass dish. Around the trunk of the tree are models of private soldiers of the three regiments in which General Wemyss has served....The cost of the Testimonial is 250 guineas. It has been got up at the manufactory in Duke-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, now carried on by Smith, Nicholson, and Co'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850

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