A VICTORIAN SILVER DESK STANDISH

A VICTORIAN SILVER DESK STANDISH, makers Roberts & Slater, Sheffield 1853, of lobed oval form centred by a pair of clear glass inkwells with matched silver mounts and hinged covers (marks indistinct) and flanked by two pen wells, one engraved "September 1853", within a cast scroll border and raised upon four knurl feet, 8 1/2" wide, 10ozs 5dwts