A VICTORIAN SILVER CEREMONIAL TROWEL, CHAWNER & CO., LONDON, 1877 the silver trowel engraved with an inscription surrounded by a floral border, the handle mount cast with a cornucopia and leafage, underside inscribed by the retailer 'D.C. RAIT & SONS / GLASGOW', the turned ivory handle with a band of stiff leaves and lobed terminal 43cm long The inscription reads: Presented to the Hon Lord Provost Collins on the occasion of his laying the last cope stone of the Queen's Dock by John Jackson, Contractor, Glasgow, March 20th 1880. Work started on the Queen's Dock in 1872 and it was opened in 1877, when the Anchor liner, 'Victoria', entered the tidal basin, though the last copestone was not laid 1880. With the decline in shipping traffic in Glasgow Harbour, it was closed and filled-in with rubble from the demolished St Enoch Station in November 1977. The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre has since been built on the site.