A George II silver coffee pot, Fuller White, London, 1756

embossed with spiral scrolls between shell and scroll borders, cast bird spout and flower finial, the sides engraved with a coat-of-arms on one side and a crest (Houghton, probably later) on the other, ivory handle

Garrard & Company Ltd., The Marchioness of Crewe, Inventory of Plate at West Horsley, 20 December 1950, p.4.

marks and condition good, except the foot is a little bent and the flower finial is incomplete, ivory handle later; the Houghton crest is probably early 19th Century
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The arms are those of Milnes impaling Slater for Richard Milnes (d. 1771), merchant of Wakefield, Yorkshire, son of Richard Milnes and his wife, Bridget, née Pemberton, who married firstly in February 1757 Joyce (d. 1764), daughter of Adam Slater of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Their great grandson, Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885), the poet and politician, who in 1851 married Annabel, daughter of John Crewe, 2^nd Baron Crewe, was elevated to the peerage as Baron Houghton in 1863.