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Tumbler cup
Silver
Origin: West Country
Date: c.1689
8.6 cm diameter; 6.7 cm height; 122 g weight
Marks/Maker: A rose (twice) and maker's mark IA within shaped punch (twice), probably for John Arden of Crewkerne, Somerset
Bequeathed by A. T. Carter, 1947; WA1947.40
T. Schroder (2009), no. 28
Although common in London and York, tumbler cups seem to have been comparatively rare in the West Country during the seventeenth century.
Information derived from T. Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean (2009)
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