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A GEORGE II SILVER TANKARD
MARK OF THOMAS COOKE AND RICHARD GURNEY, LONDON, 1755
Baluster and on spreading foot, with reeded band and scroll handle, the domed cover with openwork thumbpiece, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath, inside cover and on handle
9 ½ in. (24 cm.) high
43 oz. 3 dwt. (1,342 gr.)
The arms are those of Rutter, probably for Richard Rutter (d.1758), of Moore Hall, co. Chester. His only surviving child Rebecca, then a minor, inherited the estate. She later married Peter Kyffin Heron (1751-1801), of Daresbury Hall, co. Chester.

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