Description:
Silver tankard with straight tapering sides with applied midband, moulded foot, hinged domed cover with cast flame finial, scroll thumbpiece, and hollow handle with oval terminal, which is marked "Minott" in script in a rectangle and "M" in script in a square on the base for Samuel Minott (1732-1803). The tankard was originally owned by Edward Tuckerman (1740-1818) of Boston, and may have been engraved later with the Tuckerman coat-of-arms (Tuckerman arms, vert on a bend engrailed between 3 arrows 3 hearts vert, and crest, a heart gules issuing from a ducal coronet, impaling unidentified arms, gules 3 crescents) in a rococo surround for the marriage of his daughter, Elizabeth Tuckerman (1768-1851), to Stephen Salisbury (1746-1829) in 1797. Bolton describes a Salisbury coat-of-arms as "gu a lion ramp bet 3 crescents arg." Wgt. 31 ozs., 5 1/2 dwts.

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