SHEFFIELD.
313
Seal-top spoon. Date circa 1637. /. H. Walter, Esq.
Split
head spoon. Date H. Walter, Esq.
circa 1662.
/.
Tankard, date 1691.
James Reeve,
Esq.
Button
top
spoon,
17 17, date of
pounced
make about
date
1693.
'
Messrs. Hancock.
Beaker, date Esq.
1697.
/.
H. Walter,
The rose crowned is the standard mark the castle and lion that of the town; the cross-mound and star being the mark of the famous Peter Peterson. All the silver bearing this symbol having been made by him. ;
SALISBURY. This
known
if
was appointed as an assay town in 1423, but it is not plate was ever assayed here in any case nothing was done city
;
when
several other places were re-appointed as assay towns, but these did not include Salisbury. The arms of the city are: Azure, four bars or. in 1700,
SHEFFIELD. The trade of the silversmith in the city of Sheffield is of considerable importance as is evidenced by the fact that Sheffield is one of the four cities in England where an office now exists for assaying and stamping gold and silver articles. The manufacture of the famous Sheffield
plate
commenced
about the year 1742; and the tankards, coffee-pots, candlesticks, and ether articles
known
as Sheffield plate are very beautiful
and dur-