Pair Sterling Silver Stuffing Spoons, Shell & Thread with Dowdeswell family crest, London 1809

Name: Pair Sterling Silver Stuffing Spoons, Shell &amp; Thread with Dowdeswell family crest, London 1809
SKU: 1030820
Price: 850.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

$850.00 AUD

Pair of large & heavy quality Sterling Silver stuffing spoons, in the ‘Shell & Thread’ pattern, a family crest to the handle comprising of six billets & fesse wavy, a crescent above, for the Dowdeswell family of Pull Court, Worcestershire.

Hallmarked for London 1809,

also “WE/WF/WC” for

William Eley I, William Fearn and William Chawner,

(mark entered in 1808 as spoon makers, Lovell’s Court, Paternoster Row)

31cm from bowl to handle

42gms

Pull Court in Worcestershire traces its origins to Roger Dowdeswell, a London lawyer whose family were from nearby Bushley Park. He built a Tudor house in the early 1620’s. Successors were important in Government, and the building was modified & then totally replaced in 1830’s with the present Tudor-style stone building. With the death of the last of the Dowdeswells in 1930, the estate shortly became a private school, which it is presently, the Bredon School.

In 1775, Thomas Dowdeswell inherited the estate, and died in 1811. This cutlery was therefore only used by him for a very short time…. or was more probably ordered by his successor.

His son John Edmund Dowdeswell inherited the estate in 1811, and so may well have been the origin of this silverware.

This cutlery could have been used at the original 17th century Pull Court, no longer existing.

Or more likely…. as the successive family members were all MP’s – some with very important positions – it would have been something necessary for entertaining in the ‘London House ‘ , listed as ‘Westminster’.