Property Descended In The Washburn Family
American Silver Caster, Nathaniel Hurd, Boston, Circa 1760
Lot Closed
January 23, 05:37 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
American Silver Caster, Nathaniel Hurd, Boston, Circa 1760
baluster form, crested, the domed cover pierced and engraved with panels of lattice, baluster finial above a collar of engraved leaves, the base later engraved "Col. John Stoddard. 1682-1748", marked below rim N.Hurd in shaped cartouche (Kane mark A). Together with a George III silver mug engraved with arms, crest, and motto, the base later engraved "Lieut. Ives Washburn. 1887-1947", maker's mark ?E, London, 1790, 2 pieces.
14 oz 10 dwt
454 g
heights 5 1/8 and 4 3/4 in.
13 and 12 cm
The crest on the Caster is that of Stoddard. The name engraved on the base is that of Colonel John Stoddard (1682-1748), Chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Hampshire and Colonel in the Colonial militia. His name has been added probably by proud descendants, who did not realize that this piece dates from the next generation of this prominent family.
John Washburn Stoddard (1826-1889) married Mary Ann Goodwin in Burlington, CT. Among their five children was Nathan William Stoddard, ancestor of the current owner.
For more information on Stoddard, see George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, 2003, p. 14 and 115; Rachel Wheeler, To Live Upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth Century Northeast, 2013, pp. 22-25; Brooks, The Common Pot, p. 30-31, 37, 41; New York State Library, Calendar of Council Minutes, 1668-1783 (Albany: University of the State of New York, 1903), 290, 294, 345.
The arms on the Mug are those of Washburn, Massachusetts. The name later engraved on the base refers to Ives Washburn, son of William Ives Washburn, who served as 2nd Lieutenant Tank Corps US Army 1918. In 1910 he married Elizabeth Crane, and became President of Ives Washburn Inc., New York book publishers.
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