Company Treasures
Browse the extensive collection of Shipwrights' treasures collected over the years.
Browse the extensive collection of Shipwrights' treasures collected over the years.
Engraved on the lid with the Shipwrights’ Arms with bow of ship to the sinister, and no dove on the Ark. On the bottom:
Peter Maxwell
1698
Robt son of the above Peter Maxwell ob 1746
Æ 46
Willm son of Rob Maxwell ob 18th April 1797
Æ 67
Robt son of Wm Maxwell
ob 6 March 1827 Æ 71
Engraved inside lid:
Robt Curtis, son of Robt Maxwell
Purchased from a fund raised in memory of Hobart H. de C Moore, Prime Warden 1979-1980.
This is the oldest known representation of the Shipwrights’ arms on silver. It has not been possible to identify Peter Maxwell (who may have been a member of the Company of Shipwrights of Redriff) or his descendants, who do not appear in the lists of freeman of the period.
Weight: 4 ozs. Oval, 3.5/8 ins/2.7/8 ins diameter. Height: 7/8 ins. Maker’s mark WS in a heart (possibly William South), London, date stamp indecipherable, possibly 1694. Gadroon edge.
(151/1981)
