- ANTIQUE SILVERSMITH HALLMARKS LATE BIRD HEAD ENGLAND FULL
- ANTIQUE SILVERSMITH HALLMARKS LATE BIRD HEAD ENGLAND FREE
He successfully appealed in a memorial of 1783 to the Council of the Court Marshall. However he was acquitted and only found guilty of minor offences regarding operations. Following these expeditions he was court-marshalled on the serious charges of embezzlement and failing to act as a gentleman. Colonel George Campbell is recognised for two successful expeditions in support of the Crown. It was not until 25 December 1782 that the King's American Regiment was recognised as part of the British Army and the ranks of its officers were confirmed. This gave the British commanders in Charlestown the chance to replace Campbell, some of his officers having written to Charlestown complaining that they were in a state of near mutiny at the time of his capture.
Colonel Henry Lee's Legion Infantry to successfully attack the town, he was captured. In January 1781 he was in command of the Georgetown Garrison where, despite the failure of Lt. In 1776 George raised, with Colonel Edmund Fanning, the King's American Regiment, acting as second in command to Fanning with the rank of Lt. Their home was at Campbell Hall, Ulster County, New York State. In the period 1733-38 George's father settled in America, with his mother and siblings. George Campbell (1732-1799) was born at Lorine or Lerine, Isle of Islay, Argyll, Scotland the son of Lachlan Campbell (1693-1750) of Kintra, Argyll and Martha Campbell (1701-1758). He is recorded at Minories from 1756, and was Contractor to Ordnance between 17, and to the East India Company between 17
ANTIQUE SILVERSMITH HALLMARKS LATE BIRD HEAD ENGLAND FREE
Free of the Joiners' Company in 1742 he was elected Master in 1784. Joseph Loder was apprenticed to Richard Clarke in 1735. The crest and motto is that of the donor Lt. as a token of Friendship', and engraved with a martial trophy involving a Britannia shield below a baldachin surmounted by an eagle on the heel tang, border engraved trigger-guard with acorn finial and engraved with a further martial trophy within rocailles and foliage on the bow, turned ramrod-pipes, and original silver-tipped ramrod with iron worm (barrel and lock with some surface patination), Tower private proof marks Colonel George Campbell to Henry Robertson Esqr.
ANTIQUE SILVERSMITH HALLMARKS LATE BIRD HEAD ENGLAND FULL
With slightly swamped two-stage barrel in Spanish style with turned girdle and silver spider fore-sight, octagonal breech stamped with two gold-lined maker's stamps and two pairs of gold-lined flower-head marks between star marks on the top flat, and signed on foliated scrolls beyond, a line of engraved beadwork across the rear of the breech, gold-lined touch-hole, tang grooved for sighting and engraved with flowering foliage and a rocaille in bas-relief, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock, cock and top jaw all decorated en suite, gold-lined pan and steel, the latter with unusual anti-friction link to the steel-spring, figured full stock with plain take-down fore-end (minor chip on one side at the muzzle) carved in relief with a martial trophy and palm fronds around the barrel tang, and with a scallop shell terminal behind the tail of the lock-plate and side-flat, and inlaid with fine silver wire scrollwork, the left side of the butt with a martial trophy below Classical architecture, a bird and flower-heads, all beneath a moon-in-splendour on the heel (minor losses of wire inlay), and on the right with a martial trophy including a campaign tent, an eagle with a laurel wreath in its beak, a barrel of cannon shot on its side, a bird and flower-heads, all beneath a sun-in-splendour on the heel, cast and chased mounts comprising trophy of arms escutcheon centred on a rococo cartouche engraved with donor's crest and motto framed by rocailles against a martial trophy, border engraved butt-plate inscribed in script 'The gift of Lieut.
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