The mark TF in monogram was ascribed by Sir Charles Jackson to F. Terry but recent research by Gerald Taylor has suggested that it may have been used by Thomas Flint II who first appears as a plateworker in 1593. "During the next eight years 26 of his "bolles and three bolle feet" were defaced or broken, resulting in his being dismissed assay and touch in 1599. He offered to pay a reduced but still exemplary fine of 26s 8d compared with the normal 6d or 12d or upwards on a scale according to the badness of the alloy or other infringment and the number of previous offences; this was accepted and he was readmitted. He was lent 3 to help set him on work and because of his many children. His only apprentice to put up with him for the full term was Thomas Francis, recorded only for three bodkins and two gold rings late in his career in 1622. Even when he eventually became, at his third application, an almsman, he used ill words and violence against Thomas Francis and his pension was stopped. He was buried on November 19, 1622." (Gerald Taylor, "Some London Platemakers' Marks 1558-1624", The Proceedings of the Silver Society, Vol. III, no. 4, 1983, p. 99)

The same maker's mark appears on a steeple cup and cover of 1625, with "rolled acanthus leaf" decoation, known as the Richard Chester Cup, in the Victoria and Albert Museum (see Philippa Glanville, Silver in Tudor and Early Stuart England, 1990, no. 23).