George V -Edward VIII- George VI Jubilee Abdication Coronation 1937

Description

Heading : Decanter commemorating the jubilee of George V in 1935. the abdication of his son Edward VIII in 1936. and the coronation of George VI in 1937.
Date : 1937
Period : George VI
Origin : Acid etched stencil mark on base Royal Brierley England
Colour : Clear
Stopper : Hollow crown
Neck : Tapered 
Body : Three sides each one commemorating a Royal event between 1935 and 1937. Roses. shamrocks and thistle engraved and polished on the angles.
Base : Polished
Glass Type : Lead.
Size :  26 cm to top of stopper
Condition : Excellent
Restoration :  None 
Weight : 1458  grams

A brief timeline to first provide some context: January 1936. and the enthusiastic and unreconstructed connoisseur of fine smoking tobacco King George V expires at Sandringham House. nine months after the Silver Jubilee of his coronation. and ushering in the reign of his son Edward VIII.

George was allegedly hastened towards his ultimate demise by the dispensation of a personal doctor who was keen to have the news first carried in the The Times the following morning. rather than the less seemly evening papers which would otherwise have been required to break the news.

Edward – who’s dissident ways were to provide significant column inches for every facet of the fourth estate – managed just 326 days on the throne. throwing the British establishment in to despair and disarray over his intractable stance towards his relationship with the soon to be twice-divorced Pennsylvanian dilettante Wallis Simpson before his abdication in December brought an end to the rancorous soap opera.

Edward was then succeeded by his younger brother Albert under the regnal name of George VI. So. more changes in the sceptred realm of the British monarchy in ten months than had been the case in the previous eighty years.

Keen to draw all the ongoing threads together in to one compendious piece we have. in the first instance. our 1937 decanter which commemorates the jubilee of George V. Edward’s abdication and the coronation of George VI. Although it bears no allusion to the old king’s death. this gloriously bright piece encapsulates all the other salient episodes of the tumultuous period.