Church sells gift from its opening
As previewed in ATG No 2648, Bonhams’ Fine Decorative Arts sale at New Bond Street on July 5 featured this rare Elizabethan silver-gilt tankard, London 1592, with maker’s mark 'IB' possibly for John Brodie (Brode), or John Bottomley.
It was sold by order of the Parochial Church Council of St Michael’s Church, West Hill in the Dioc…