Posted 2 years ago
vintagelamp
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Augusto Rato Potier
Distinguished Portuguese career diplomat for over 40 years. Minister to Indonesia. Ambassador to Sweden, Pakistan and Chile. Died on post in Santiago de Chile.
BIRTH 5 Jun 1903
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
DEATH 27 Dec 1964 (aged 61)
Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile
BURIAL
Cemitério da Guia
Cascais, Cascais Municipality, Lisboa, Portugal
Huband of Alma Dato-Montero Potier
Daughter of Francisco Dato-Tessitore and Raquel Montero de Dato. Distinguished watercolor miniaturist (See previous post of her work).
Parents of Regina Potier Esteves and Gloria Potier Harrison
Such a fancy silver baptismal spoon, and so cute the baby's engraved name Jorginho (little Jorge in Portuguese)
Newfld,
Yes, I believe his dad's name was "Oscar George" so little George makes sense.
You have a beautiful group of Augusto Rato Potier collectables & they're in good shape. The napkin rings are my favorite!
Alfie21,
Thank you!
they used shanghai is an Zhejiang coin ( province make scene , the emission is CHEKIANG: Kuang Hsu, 1875-1908, so 1903 is between the parameters
apostata,
Thank you for the information/comment!
Indeed, my grandfather Oscar was Oscar Gorge Potier, because his British grandmother' family name was George. But my father's middle name was never George. The family called him jorginho as a joke, sometimes they calle him gigi!
The napkin rings were my favorites too. There were more than the ones shown here. They were always used in the family dinners, and I loved polishing them. They were not used at diplomatic dinners, for fear someone would "accidentally" take one as a souvenir, ha ha!