| INDEX | ALL SILVER |
| DESCRIPTION | Exceptionally good antique English Georgian pierced solid sterling silver salt with blue glass liner. Rare to find a Sheffield made example, I have only had London before. Blue glass liner has a shaped base that does not exactly fit the shape of the hole in the bottom so liner sits slightly high and is also quite a tight fit. I think this has preserved this piece from salt corrosion. With the liner fitting tightly and slightly proud it has been difficult for salt to get down the sides and corrode the base. I have never seen a salt of this type in such good condition before. |
| SILVERSMITH | Richard Morton & Co. |
| DATE or HALLMARK | 1788 |
| ASSAY OFFICE | Sheffield |
| WEIGHT in GRAMS | silver 56, total 144 |
| LENGTH | 3 ½", 90mm |
| SILVER STANDARD | ·925 sterling silver |
| CONDITION | excellent, exceptionally good, base rim is thick and solid with no repairs, cartouche has been erased but is not thin, solder to one leg joint not as fine as the others so may have been re-done, liner not original and has couple of rim chips but works well |
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| Price £128 |
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