Five George III silver meat dishes, John Romer, London, one 1763, the remainder 1764

shaped oval, with applied gadroon borders engraved with a coat-of-arms, supporters and motto below a baron's coronet, scratch weights: 'N2 71,' 'N3 18 [sic],' 'N7 . .,' N11 42"12' and ''N12 42'

marks good, overall condition good but somewhat worn from use, with knife scratches; the engraving of the arms &c date from about 1806 when Crewe was elevated to the peerage as Baron Crewe
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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.