3-070-698 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Silver dressing-table articles presented by Prince & Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, 1881. 'The gifts presented to the bride and bridegroom are very costly, Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, the bride's uncle and her aunt by marriage, have provided for the purpose a set of articles for the dressing-table, in silver, manufactured by the Court jeweller and silversmith, Mr. H. J. Wilm, of Jerusalemer-Strasse, Berlin, which are shown in our Illustration. The mirror, it will be observed, is surmounted by two small shields, displaying respectively the arms of the bride and bridegroom's families, with a Royal Crown above. Each separate article is decorated with the same heraldic devices; that of the Prince being simply the Prussian eagle, but that of Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, with five quarterings, has a crowned lion, or, with halbert; two lions azure, a nettle-leaf, a mounted knight, and an argent swan with golden necklet, besides other particulars'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.