A pair of George I silver gilt canted rectangular tea caddies, Thomas Ash, London, 1712

slide off shoulder and detachable cover, engraved contemporary coat-of-arms to one side and later crest below the initials LAFW to the other, later gilt, undersides initialled M*B and with scratchweights 6=1 and 5=17

Garrard & Company Ltd., The Marchioness of Crewe, Inventory of Plate at 50 Charles Street, 20 December 1950, p.5.

marked on bodies and shoulders, marks clear, a few little dents, condition of contemporary engraving very nice
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The arms are those of Boddington with a label of difference (for a fourth son) impaling Ball or of Williams of Chichester, Sussex.