Scottish Interest - Large Victorian silver presentation jug, for the City of Edinburgh & Midlothian Rifle Association, in the early 18th Century manner, the domed floral repoussé-decorated hinged cover with pierced thumbpiece, to a scroll handle with bone insulators and engraved heart-shaped escutcheon, the body with conforming floral decoration and scroll-border cartouche beneath lip. "The President's Cup, Presented by His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensbury, K. G., President of the Association, To be competed for at the Second Prize Meeting of the City of Edinburgh & Midlothian Rifle Association June 1862, Gained by Robert Legat No.3 W. S. Co. E. R. V.", London, 1861, sponsors mark of Augustus George Piesse, 19.2cm foot rim diameter x 24.5cm high, 1990g approx gross