LONDON.- A Magnificent George V Gold Freedom Casket enamelled with the arms of the County Borough of Newport (Wales) will highlight Matthew Barton Ltd’s auction of Silver, Works of Art and Objects of Vertu. The sale will take place on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 in West Kensington at 25 Blythe Road, W14. It is estimated at £18,000-22,000. Made by S. Blanckensee & Son Ltd of Birmingham and dated 1924, the rectangular casket is decorated with Newport views of St. Paul’s National School, Commercial Street and Newport Harbour, while the rear has panels of St. Paul’s Church and the G.W.R. Chepstow Castle steam locomotive. The interior has crushed cream satin lining and presentation plaque, also containing the scroll pronouncing ‘The Right Honourable James Henry Thomas’ an ‘Honourary Freeman of the County Borough of Newport’, underside inscribed ‘SUPPLIED BY HOSKIN NEWPORT MON.’