AN OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE OVAL TEA CADDY BY FENTON

AN OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE OVAL TEA CADDY BY FENTON, CRESWICK & CO, C1775 with swivel knop and lock, engraved with armorials, 10.5cm h, rare early scratched maker's initials FC&CoThe arms are those of Still impaling Skrine. Robert Still of Mere, Wiltshire married Sarah, daughter of Richard Dickson Skrine of Warley or Warleigh Manor in Somerset and Bath on 13 September 1777 at Bathford Church near Bath. Illustrated: Crosskey (G), Old Sheffield Plate, second edition, 2013, figs 115.