Georgian Silver Snuffer Tray London 1795

Description

Heading : Silver snuffer tray
Date : 1795
Period : George III
Origin : London. England
Marks : Richard Meach makers mark assay and duty marks for London 1795
Body : Navette shape with two scroll handles and a crest (Grey impaling Whitbreat) within.
Size : 24.6cm long 10.2cm wide and 2.2cm tall
Condition : Very good. a couple of very minor tears
Restoration : None
Weight : 206 grams

Additional Information : We do not have the candle scissors but this has a good piece of associated history to relate. Let me ask you how does how does one best blend tea with beer ?

The Crest is that of Grey impailing Whitbread. Sir George Grey. 1st baronet married Mary Whitbread on the 18th of June 1795.

Mary was the daughter of Samuel Whitbread the English brewer and parliamentarian who was thought to be worth over one million pounds when he died in 1796.

Sir George Gray was a naval officer during the American war of independence. the French revolutionary wars and the Napoleonic wars. The son of Charles Grey. The first Earl Grey  who himself was a General in the British army during the Jacobite rebellion through to the French Revolutionary wars.

It was George Gray’s older brother the second Earl Charles Grey and prime minister who oversaw the abolition of slavery and from which the tea took his name. 

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