Description:
Fused or Sheffield silver-plated goblet (unmarked) with a fluted bowl and gadrooned base. During the early years of the fused plate industry from 1750-1770, makers used devices of their own as marks, some of which looked deceptively like silver marks, especially when marked three or four times in a row and then partially obliterated. The Act of 1773 established an assay office for silver in Sheffield, and provided that no article in which silver was used, if it were not solid silver, could bear a device resembling a mark on silver. In 1784, a further act decreed that the platers could register a device, but it was not to suggest a silver mark; however platers were not compelled to use marks and did not always comply. The light-weight goblet has a plain rim; a wavy band over the fluted body with four vertical leaves extending from the wavy band to the base of the cup body; plain knopped stem; and twisted foot with a twisted gadrooned band around the rim.
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