A pair of George III silver second course dishes, Thomas Heming, London, 1764

shaped circular, each applied with a gadroon border above an engraved coat-of-arms, supporters and motto below a baron's coronet

marks and condition good apart from knife scratches to the surface and one has two small dents; the engraved arms &c engraved about 1806 when Crewe was elevated to the peerage as a baron
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The arms are those of Crewe quartering Crewe, Offley and another impaling Greville for John Crewe (1742-1829), who in 1829 was elevated to the peerage as Baron Crewe of Crewe, Cheshire. He married in 1776, Frances Anne, only daughter of Fulke Greville, envoy extraordinary in 1776 to the Elector of Bavaria.