A pair of George III silver baskets, Thomas Heming, London, 1763

oval, basket-weave sides and fixed reeded handles, both engraved with a later coat-of-arms, motto and supporters below a baron's coronet, one with scratch weight: '49"18'

marks good, the handles with slight repairs
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The arms are those of Crewe impaling Greville for John Crewe (1742-1829), son and heir of John Crewe (d. 1752) of Crewe Hall, Cheshire, by his wife, Anne, daughter of Richard Shuttleworth of Gawthorp, Oxfordshire. The younger John Crewe was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, before becoming High Sheriff for Cheshire in 1764. He was M.P. for Stafford from 1765 to 1768, and for Cheshire from 1768 to 1802. He was elevated to the peerage upon the recommendation of Charles James Fox as Baron Crewe of Crewe and died aged 86 at his house in Grosvenor Street, Mayfair. His widow, Frances, daughter of Fulke-Greville of Wilbury, Wilshire, whom he had married at St. George's, Hanover Square in 1766, died in 1818.