A Russian beaker chased with eagles by Syemyen Tulayev Moscow 1771-9, Assay Master Andrej Andrejev, unknown Aldermans mark.
Price: £895.00

              (This beaker was purchased from an American family named Grant. Family history was that the beaker belonged originally to one of their ancestors, John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of America. He went to Russia as American Ambassador in 1809—1814, and negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 which ended the 1812 War with England that had resulted in the burning of Washington. )

An Old Sheffield Plate double beaker, circa 1800 engraved 'James Brown to WB' on the bases and 'Walter Brown, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1827-1829'. This beaker is the only example of Sheffield Plate shown in Eric Delieb's 'Investing in Silver' (p.56).
Price: £850.00

Walter Brown, (1768? — 1849), served as Master of the Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh 1820 — 1821.

A heavy cast and chased Christening mug by Barber and Whitwell, York 1815 inscribed 'Lady Birnie to her Goddaughter Margaret Birnie 1828'.
Price: £745.00

In all probability, this Margaret Birnie was born to George and Ann Birnie of Mains and Strathmartine, Angus, and christened on 15th April 1827. Lady Birnie was a distant relative, the wife of Sir Richard Birnie, originally from Banff. He it was who became Chief Magistrate at Bow Street and a favourite of King George IV.

A silver mounted glass mug, London 1857 by George Ivory, the glass engraved with the crest of Lewis below a French duke's coronet and inscribed beneath: ''Turner's 58 & 59 New Bond St'.
Price: £675.00

A campana-shaped goblet, London 1816, engraved with the arms of Clare College, Cambridge and a Latin inscription dedicating the goblet as a prize to William Cooper.
Price: £625.00

              This cup is one of two ‘Greene Cups’ given by Clare College, Cambridge in 1819. In his will, Robert Greene (c.1678-1730), a fellow of Clare, left money to his college to fund two annual prizes: one ‘as a reward of piety, virtue and goodness’ and the other for ‘ingenuity, scholarship and learning’. Another request in his will was that his skeleton should be placed outside the college library and addressed as “Mr. Greene”— this was agreed to but in the end, a replacement skeleton was used! The prizes Greene endowed are still given, but from 2011 they have taken the form of medals.

William Cooper won this prize for piety in 1819 and received his BA in the same year. He went on to pursue an ecclesiastical career until his death in 1857.

A mug chased and engraved with bands of patterning on the body, Sheffield 1869 by Martin, Hall and Company, also stamped with a retailer's mark for Charles Nephew and Company of Calcutta.
Price: £325.00
                                       (For a mustard-pot with similar decoration by the same makers, see SN 7242)