Description

An attractive antique silver meat skewer (or could be used as a letter opener) with excellent quality cast shell handle and hand engraved snake crest.

Weight 98g, 3 troy oz. Length 30.5cm.
London 1799.
Maker Thomas Wallis II.
Sterling silver.

Arms. This crest is for the Cavendish family and probably for Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish, (31 Mar 1754 – 9 May 1834), later 1st Earl of Burlington and Baron Cavendish of Keighley (to whom we owe the Burlington Arcade) or his wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Compton, (25 Jun 1760 – 7 Apr 1835) only child of Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton. They married on 27 February 1782.

Lord George was the third son of the 4th Duke of Devonshire; in 1858 his grandson, the 2nd Earl of Burlington, succeeded his first cousin once removed as 7th Duke of Devonshire.

This useful silver skewer is in excellent condition with no damage or restoration. Please note that this item is not new and will show moderate signs of wear commensurate with age. Reflections in the photograph may detract from the true representation of this item.

Maker: Thomas Wallis I

Thomas Wallis I, London silversmith, apprenticed to William Jones 1749, free 1756. 1st mark (2 sizes) as largeworker 1758. 2nd mark (2 sizes) 1763. Livery 1771. Thomas Wallis II, London silversmith, son of Billers Wallis victualler, apprenticed to Thomas Wallis I in 1771, free 1779. 1st mark entered as plateworker 1778. 4 marks as bucklemaker 1780-89. Livery 1791. 6th mark as plateworker (2 sizes) 1792. 7th mark (6 punches) 1796. 8th mark (6 punches) 1801. 9th mark, 2 sizes, in partnership with Jonathan Hayne as plateworkers 1810. 10th mark, 3 sizes, 1817. 11th mark 1820. The partnership was dissolved in 1816 and in 1821 Jonathan Hayne entered his first mark. Died c,1818-22. In 1836 Hayne’s son Samuel Holditch Hayne entered a new mark in partnership with Dudley Frank Cater (a former apprentice) as Hayne & Co., assuming full control of the firm after the death of Jonathan Hayne (1848). This became Hayne & Cater and the firm was listed as merchants, manufacturers and wholesale silversmiths and silver spoon and fork makers from 1853 to 1864. Hayne continued the business after Cater's retirement (1864) trading as Samuel Hayne & Co. The firm declared bankruptcy on 1865.

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