Charles II Provincial Silver Wine Taster

England,c1670

Maker's Mark Only (Indistinct - H?), possibly West Country,

Although there are several records of wine tasters in English 14^th and 15^th century manuscripts,

the earliest British silver wine tasters are from the 17^th century, with very few being made after

1750.  Wine tasters are an outgrowth of small tasters made during the medieval period to taste contents of bowls, to convince guests that the food was not poisoned.

Rare Charles II Silver Brazier
Mark of "B", London, 1677

Mark: B in oval punch; ref. Jackson’s 2009, p. 133, found on a communion

service dating 1675, Titchfield, Hants

      Peter Waldron, Antique British Silver: “Dish crosses were a development from the much earlier braziers (which are so rare that they do not fall within the scope of this book…” )

Silver Sucket Spoon & Fork

Late 17th Century, Probably English Provincial

 Unascribed

The 17th century British clergy contended that God gave people fingers for eating,

and declared forks to be diabolical (forks sometimes then referred to as "pitchforks"

having the same Latin root furca).  "Sucket Forks" were the exception, introduced into

England in the early 17th century and used for eating staining fruits and wet puddings.

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George II Silver Pattern-Back Hanoverian Teaspoons

Set of 4, William Shaw & William Priest, London, c1750 (Sorry - this set of 4 is spoken for)

Set of 4, Benjamin Cartwright I, London, c1750

A Pair, Thomas England, London, 1746

Set o12 George II/III Silver Dinner Knives

    England, c1760, W.S in a rectangle

   11.25" long, the polished carbon steel scimitar blades possibly original;

each crested with a lion, passant, gardant (Fairbairn's Pl. 120, # 5 -  Batson,

Burrow, De Senlize, Eyre, Holbrook, Marshall, Muriell, Strange)

Early George III Silver Cream Jug

Samuel Meriton, London, 1769

 The body contemporarily chased with a church in a landscape sided

 by swans and hounds, raised on three hoof feet issuing from shells

Pair of George III Silver Onslow Sauce Ladles

Thomas Tookey, London, c.1775 (date marks cast over)

 Georgian chairs. The handle is cast separately and applied with an angled scarf joint to the shaft. 

Rare Old Sheffield Plate Dish Wedge

England, Thomas Law & Co., circa 1790

Dish wedges were used to lift the edge of a platter, causing the gravy to flow to the well. 

Somewhat rare, they were made is both silver and Old Sheffield Plate.

Thomas Law was one of the pioneers of Old Sheffield Plate, working as early as the 1760's.

Pair of George III Armorial Silver Goblets

George Smith and Thomas Hayter, London, 1792

Each bowl engraved with squigglework lip banding above ribbon-tied mantled armorial: 

Or, a chevron cotised sable, between three auks  proper, all within a

bordure engrailed of the second, charged with thirteen bezants; crest:

Upon a rock an auk proper, holding in the beak a bezant  with motto,

"Bedhoh Fyr Ha Heb Drok"

Peter, Ann & William Bateman, London 1800

Thomas Phipps & Edward Robinson, London, 1810

English Silver Penknife

19th century, unmarked

With engine turned decoration, having four sliding implements:

a button-hook / a penknife / a pair of tweezers / pencil with lead insert

all issuing from a reeded opening, the other end with a silver dependent loop.

Fine Set of 6 Victorian Master Salt Spoons

William Robert Smily, London 1856

Of very heavy gauge silver, in the Fiddle, Thread, and Shell pattern,

Mark: one of three marks, this one registered November 1852 and used only until 1856