Company Treasures

Below are descriptions and pictures, where available, of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights treasures stored in Ironmongers Hall. The original listing was made by Mr S.E. Tomkins OBE, Liveryman and his wife in 1977 when the Company moved from the Baltic Exchange to its current premises.  This work developed further by the Honorary Historian, Mr David I Moor, Liveryman and Past Prime Warden to whom all credit should be given for researching, confirming and cataloguing the items shown.

Some entries remain without photographs but in an effort to make them available for the livery to view they have been listed all the same.  New amendments and pictures will continue to be added as they become available but it is hoped that the treasures, which have been largely unseen, will now have the opportunity to be admired by all.

Pair of Silver Plate Candelabra
Pair of Silver Plate Candelabra

Pair of antique Victorian triple silver plated five-light candelabrs, made ...

Pair of St Paul’s (Royal Wedding) Goblets
Pair of St Paul’s (Royal Wedding) Goblets

Aurum Series,  made by HM, London,  1984 Inscribed under base: NUMBER ...

Pair of Warden’s badges
Pair of Warden’s badges

Clearly intended to be of the same design as the ...

Pair of Warden’s badges
Pair of Warden’s badges

At a meeting in Guildhall on 29th. February 1876 of ...

Past Prime Warden’s gowns
Past Prime Warden’s gowns

Fifteen Past Prime Warden's gowns Blue cloth, trimmed with black velvet; ...

Permanent Master’s badge
Permanent Master’s badge

  Commissioned by the Company when H.R.H. the Duke ...

Poors box
Poors box

In 1729, "the Company's seal in silver" appears in the ...

Porcelain Two Handled Covered Cabinet Cup and Stand
Porcelain Two Handled Covered Cabinet Cup and Stand

No. 1 of a limited edition of 500 made by ...

Prime Warden’s (formerly Master’s) badge
Prime Warden’s (formerly Master’s) badge

In 1876, at the beginning of the resuscitation of the ...

Prime Warden’s Chain of Office
Prime Warden’s Chain of Office

Two rows of twenty four 9ct. gold links joined by ...

Prime Warden’s gown
Prime Warden’s gown

Presented 1950 by Sir William Currie, GBE, in commemoration of ...

Prime Warden’s Lady’s Jewel
Prime Warden’s Lady’s Jewel

Made by John Donald ,London,in the form of a smaller  ...

Rebbeck Carriage Clock
Rebbeck Carriage Clock

Inscribed on the top: DENIS REBBECK PRIME WARDEN  -  1980-1981   Presented ...

Reproduction Liverpool Ware China Bowl
Reproduction Liverpool Ware China Bowl

Made by Wm.Adams and Sons,England, 20th.C. Inside, transfer of the ship ...

RNLI Egg
RNLI Egg

Gold, silver-gilt, blue enamel, diamond and cultured pearl model egg,  ...

Salt
Salt

Silver gilt,  in the form of an oyster  shell supported ...

Salt Cellar, Pepper Pot, Mustard Pot
Salt Cellar, Pepper Pot, Mustard Pot

Engraved with the shield 203/1984  of the Company's arms. Presented 1984  ...

Samurai Sword in Sheath
Samurai Sword in Sheath

Said to have been wrought by Sagami-no-kami Masatsune the younger ...

Set of models of shipwrights’ tools
Set of models of shipwrights’ tools

Forty tools, together with chest and bench with  vice.  1/8th. ...

Shrieval Badge of the Charvet Arms
Shrieval Badge of the Charvet Arms

Gold and enamel, for wearing with the shrieval chain.  Made ...

Shrieval Badge of the Neary Arms
Shrieval Badge of the Neary Arms

The shrieval chain of office worn by Neary Made by Toye, ...

Shrieval badge of the Trinder Arms
Shrieval badge of the Trinder Arms

Gold and enamel,  for wearing with the shrieval chain. Made by ...

Shrieval badge of the Trinder arms
Shrieval badge of the Trinder arms

Gold and enamel,  for wearing with the shrieval chain.   Made ...

Shrieval Chain of Office
Shrieval Chain of Office

Gold, originally made by Messrs Asprey, London, for Alderman (Sir) Frank ...

Shrieval chain of Office and Badge of Arms
Shrieval chain of Office and Badge of Arms

Deposited 1981 with the Company on loan by John G. ...

Silver badge of Arms of Sir Frank Alexander
Silver badge of Arms of Sir Frank Alexander

Enamelled silver,  commissioned from Toye Kenning, Birmingham, 1988, to form ...

Silver badge of Company Arms
Silver badge of Company Arms

 Fully modelled silver, enamelled, on circular silver gilt backplate with ...

Silver Speech Timer
Silver Speech Timer

Eight minute glass containing blue sand, enclosed in silver reversible ...

Silver Sphinx
Silver Sphinx

A silver Sphinx bequeathed to the Company by John Callendar ...

Six Silver Goblets (The Arnold or Ladies’ Goblets)
Six Silver Goblets (The Arnold or Ladies’ Goblets)

Lilly shaped, with the Company's arms with supporters. Presented 1992 by ...