ARMORIAL BEARINGS
PAYMENT OF DUTY STOPPED. STORM OVER A TEAPOT. There has been a storm over a teapot at Uxbridge, Middlesex. Mrs Clarice H. M. Naylor-Davidson, 75-year-old widow of a doctor, was fined 10s at Uxbridge Police Court for not paying armorial bearings duty on a cracked teapot and other articles of crockery.
Although Mrs Naylor-Davidson had paid the duty for 20 years, she said in a letter to the Court: “I think armorial bearings are a sign of respectability that is wanted in this country, and asking for payment is farcical and a mean affront.”
Later Mrs Naylor-Davidson said: “The armorial bearings on the china are those of my late husband, and come from India. The teapot is badly cracked and has been repaired several times. The china is not valuable. It is a waste of money to go on paying this guinea a year. Armorial bearings do not mean very much nowadays.”
Some time ago Mrs Naylor-David-son wrote a book about her house, in which she offered to conduct visitors on a 15-minute tour of the rooms for a guinea a person.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1938, Page 10
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