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E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. Glass and pewter ‘Haig Dimple’ whisky decanter with ‘Dimple’ motif pewter panel to one side, with floral decorations, ‘Haig’, and coats of arms to sides. Maker’s mark for Daalderop Royal Holland Pewter, no. N4919 to base. 8.5” tall. Accompanied by a handwritten card inscribed ‘This pewter whisky decanter was presented to me in token of my 80th birthday at an Eve-of-Test dinner of the Lord’s Taverners as were decanters to three other cricket octogenarians Sir George [Gubby] Allen, Leslie Ames, and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, November 1977’. Signed in blue ink ‘Jim Swanton’. G/VG