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MARK OF THOMAS HAMMERSLEY, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1760
Details
A SILVER SAUCEBOAT
Mark of Thomas Hammersley, New York, circa 1760
Oval, on three hoof feet with scroll joins, with everted, shaped lip and double scroll handle, the body engraved with a crest, the base engraved with block initials M TE 1771, marked on base
7in. long over handle; 11oz.
Mark of Thomas Hammersley, New York, circa 1760
Oval, on three hoof feet with scroll joins, with everted, shaped lip and double scroll handle, the body engraved with a crest, the base engraved with block initials M TE 1771, marked on base
7in. long over handle; 11oz.
Provenance
The initials M*TE are those of Mary (Gurney) Ten Eyck (1706-1787), wife of Samuel Ten Eyck, whom she married in 1728, thence by descent to:
Anne Ten Eyck (b.1728), daughter, who married Lieutenant John Marshall, who served in the Royal Navy from 1759-1771
Maria Susannah Marshall, daughter, who married Charles Watkins of New York City in 1793
Anna Maria Watkins (1794-1880), daughter, of Reading, New York
Samuel Watkins Tuttle (d.1876), nephew
Adeline Terry Tuttle (1871-1958), niece
William M. Tuttle (1905-1962), nephew
Thence by descent to the present owner
Anne Ten Eyck (b.1728), daughter, who married Lieutenant John Marshall, who served in the Royal Navy from 1759-1771
Maria Susannah Marshall, daughter, who married Charles Watkins of New York City in 1793
Anna Maria Watkins (1794-1880), daughter, of Reading, New York
Samuel Watkins Tuttle (d.1876), nephew
Adeline Terry Tuttle (1871-1958), niece
William M. Tuttle (1905-1962), nephew
Thence by descent to the present owner