A Victorian silver milk jug of baluster form with foliate capped scroll handle, the body decorated in relief with flowers and scrolls on a trellis ground framing a scroll cartouche with engraved inscription 'Gads Hill Place, 1862', on three foliate shouldered scroll feet, London 1849 by Hunt & Roskell (John Samuel Hunt), height approx 15cm, together with an 1853 volume of Bleak House by Charles Dickens and a monochrome print of 'Dickens House in Furnivals Inn', framed and glazed. Note: Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, was the country home of Charles Dickens. Gads Hill Place acted as his retreat from the purchase in 1856 until his death in 1870, when he died from a stroke on a couch in the dining room of the house. Many of the contents of the house were auctioned after his death.