In nearly 1000 posts I’ve taken care not to appeared in a
picture myself, but, for a second post running, Steven Wood has provided me
with the top picture here. When he sent
me the picture I posted last time, it was not the flagons which grabbed my attention but
the chalice (150 years older than the flagons – the hallmark is 1593).
I wondered whether it might be a piece of ‘exchanged silver’,
and, after inspecting it, I’m not sure it isn’t, but it is certainly a very fine piece
with exquisite engravings and hardly any signs of wear. Steven provided me with a 1914 survey of
church plate which also admires it highly but which suggests it may have originally
been intended as a beaker for secular use.
I’d love to know if it was made for the church in Elizabeth
I’s time, and still suspect it might be a remodelling then from items of the
church’s pre-Reformation plate, but it may have come into the church’s possession later,
and may indeed be of secular origin. I
have no idea what the H ND (with *) on its base signifies.
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