Chaffers' Hand-book to hall marks on gold & silver plate : with revised tables of the annual date letters employed in the assay offices of England, Scotland and Ireland / [William Chaffers].

  • William Chaffers
Date:
1907
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Chaffers' Hand-book to hall marks on gold & silver plate : with revised tables of the annual date letters employed in the assay offices of England, Scotland and Ireland / [William Chaffers]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    |]p cw On a spoon with flat stem, leaf-shaped end and oval bowl, date about 1680 to 1690. — Earl of Breadalbane. (This has also the stamp of a half lis and rose, here omitted by mistake.) On an oval engraved teapot. This mark proves that J was used as a date letter previous to 1784, hav- ing no duty mark, [j] It may belong to ^ the year 1736, for J of 1710 would have the Britannia mark of the new standard. —Messrs. Hancock.