MAKERS MARK B, LONDON, 1675

The arms are those of Moyer impaling Boothby, for Lawrence Moyer, merchant, of Low Leyton, Essex, who married in 1677, Martha (d. 1727), daughter of William Boothby of Tottenham High Cross. These boxes are from the same maker in the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and which formed part of the celebrated Farrer collection, published in T. Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean, Oxford, 2009, p. 530. A similar smaller pair of boxes from the same service were sold Sotheby’s London, 21 February 1952, lot 134. A dish from the service was sold Christie’s London, 11 June 1945, lot 65.