Auctioneers, Dreweatts, are offering for sale the 1928 Grant of Supporters to George Abraham Gibbs following his advancement to the dignity of Baron Wraxall. Included in the sale is the document of ennoblement. The auction is to be held on 1st May 2019 at Newbury. The auctioneer’s estimate is £300-£500.
Arms: Argent three battleaxes erect Sable a bordure nebuly of the last.
Crest: In front of a rock a dexter arm embowed in armour the hand in a gauntlet proper bearing a battle-axe bendwise sinister Sable.
Motto: Tenax Propositi
The Arms were granted in 1876 to Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham, and descendants of his grandfather Antony Gibbs. The latter was George Abraham Gibbs’s great-grandfather.
Supporters: On either side a St Kilda sheep proper each charged on the shoulder with a portcullis Or.
Dated: 20th February 1928
Garter: Sir Henry Farnham Burke