Lot 120
120
A SILVER CANN

Details
A SILVER CANN
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN EDWARDS, BOSTON, CIRCA 1720

Cylindrical, on a molded base, the S-scroll handle with boot-heel terminal, engraved under the base with scratchweight 9 oz 16 dwt, and later with M.C. to B.C. to S.T.C., marked on side with crowned initial mark
4 1/8in. high
(9oz. 10dwt.)

Lot Essay

A similar cann by Edwards is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is illustrated in Kathryn C. Buhler, American Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, fig. 86, p. 105.

Another closely related cann was sold at Sotheby's, New York, January 30, 1991, lot 145.