Old Sheffield Plate ‘toasting box’, c. 1815

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Old Sheffield Plate ‘toasting box’, c. 1815
family crest of a knight’s arm holding an arrow,
Square hatch mark for
T&J Creswick, Sheffield,
circa 1815

box 9.5×7.5cm, 3cm high, handle 9.5cm

Very good condition with thick silver cover on all but the very corner tips, where some copper shows through.

An arm in armour embowed, the hand grasping an arrow – this crest can relate to the following families: Baker, Carrie, Chaworth, Clarke, Cleghorn, Cotter, Cubit, Cubitt, Downing, Fletcher, Fookes, Godbold, Hales, Hurr, Hutcheson, Lee, Matthews, Proudfoot, Rivers, Thurburn, and Warren.

(from a 1905 copy of Fairbairn’s Crests)

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