MARK OF JOHN EDWARDS, LONDON, 1809

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A GEORGE III SILVER SAUCE-BOAT
MARK OF JOHN EDWARDS, LONDON, 1809
Boat-shaped with gadrooned rim and on three shell-capped pad feet, with a leaf-capped handle, engraved underneath 'Ship and Turtle Tavern'
8¼ in. (21 cm.) long
15 oz. (477 gr.)

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The Ship and Turtle Tavern, at 129-130 Leadenhall, was celebrated in the 19th century for its turtle soup. Even the legendary fictional character of the hunting-mad Cockney grocer John Jorrocks in Robert Smith Surtees', Handley Cross, or Mr. Jorrocks Hunt, London, 1854, p. 259, sings its praises comparing the reading of his favourite hunting memoirs to it, "I really think a good suck of 'im is a'most as good as a tuck out at the Ship and Turtle Tavern".