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Sugar basket An unusually heavy swing-handled sugar basket with bright-cut decoration made in London in 1796 by ?S .
Price: £950.00
5612
George III sugar basket London 1795 William Abdy Sir James Sanderson Baronet

A sugar basket with shaped foot and threaded border, by William Abdy London 1795 (also marked with a lion passant on the handle), engraved with the crest and armorial of Sir James Sanderson, 1st and only Baronet of the City of London (1741-1798) .
Price:SOLD
Sir James Sanderson, 1st and only Baronet of the City of London, was born in York in 1741 and moved to the City of London in the early 1770s where he traded in hops. By 1785, he was both an Alderman and Sherriff. In 1792, at the height of the fears caused by the French Revolution, he was elected Lord Mayor of London. In the same year as his mayoralty, he was also elected one of the Members of Parliament for Malmesbury. He received his Baronetcy in 1794.

Sanderson's wider interests included his membership of the anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce's Society of the Proclamation for the discouragement of Vice (founded in 1787) and the Philanthropic Society (founded in 1788). He also served as vice-president of the Magdalen Hospital and President of the Bridewell Hospital where he is acknowledged to have played a transformative role in its development. He served as Colonel of the 2nd London Militia (1793-1794) and the West London Militia (1794-1796).

Sanderson died in 1798 without a male heir leaving a widow and a daughter- thus there was no second Baronet.  His widow became involved with William Huntington (1745-1813) and married him in 1806 (when both were free to do so).  Huntington was a coal heaver who following a revelation in 1773 became a preacher and self professed prophet- he went on to found several chapels in London, Sussex, the East Midlands and Bristol.

Through his daughter Elizabeth Sanderson was grandfather to Sir John Scott Sanderson-Burdon Baronet (1828-1895)- a scientist who reported on Penicillin in 1871.
7093

George III salver quilted border ball claw feet London 1767 Ebenezer Coker

A George III salver (20 cm in diameter) with quilted border and ball and claw feet made in London in 1767 by Ebenezer Coker, initialled {WI}.

Price: £695.00

Ebenezer Coker (d. 1783) was an unusual silversmith in that he seems to have been a prominent manufacturer of both hollow-ware and flatware. This salver is an excellent example of his hollow-ware. Stock number 9375 below is a spoon of unusually high quality and gauge.

 

9372
 salver A double gadrooned salver, by William Bennett London 1809 on pedestal feet.
Price: £695.00
4835
Salver A 7-inch salver shaped and beaded with embossed swags on 3 ball-and-claw feet by John Carter II (probably), London 1773 initialled HCT.
Price: £660.00
8107

Victorian Gothic teapot stand London 1842 John Tapley

A Victorian stand of Gothic design with wooden inset to base (14.5 cm in diameter) made in London in 1842 by John Tapley, engraved with the arms registered by Robert Campbell, Merchant of Sydney with the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh in 1837, with another in pretence.

Price: £595.00

The Campbell family were prominent citizens of Sydney and favoured the name Robert- among them were the original Robert (1769-1846)  who arrived in Sydney in 1796 as a merchant and settled in 1798.  He was joined by his nephew, another Robert (1789-1851) in 1806.


This family flourished in both politics and trade, despite the inevitable peaks and troughs of any people involved in the trading economy of New South Wales in the 1st half of the nineteenth century.  The three Roberts were involved in almost all aspects of the growing colony- the first serving as a magistrate, Secretary of the Savings Bank and a key donor to the building fund of St. Philip’s Cathedral.  His nephew also had a prominent mercantile career as well as being a founder of the Bank of New South Wales and the man who housed Hector, a Persian stallion acknowledged as the foundation of Australian bloodstock.  Sydney Ranulph Dacre, another important merchant in Sydney, wrote of Campbell that that he was “esteemed in his counting house but no further”.


Robert (1789-1851) had married Margaret Murrill in 1812, on the first birthday of their eldest son, and they went on to have another 3 sons and 2 daughters (the last child born in 1820). In 1831 she went on a visit to England, only to return in 1837.  This does not seem to have been a happy reunion- not least because Robert had three known children (born between 1839 and 1843) by Isabella Donnell, whose marital status is uncertain as she may have been married to a Mr. MacDonald.


The fact that the arms registered in Edinburgh contain the quarterings of the Morrison family (that of the second Robert’s mother) combined with the date of 1837 indicate very strongly that Robert Campbell (1789-1851) was the one to register these arms.  The records also show that this Robert was in England within the period from June 1842 to September 1843- during the London Assay Office year that ran from 30th May 1842 to 29th May 1843 as found on this piece.
It is possible that the arms of the wife in this armorial are unofficial is likely to be because his wife, Margaret Murrill (1794-1864), was born on the penal colony of Norfolk Island and by 1842 he may have wished to keep the surname of his “wife” a mystery.

 

 

 

 

9423
George III salver London 1773 William Taylor crest Savage

A George III waiter with neo classical border and hoof feet made in London in 1773 by William Taylor, crested for Savage.
Price: £580.00

 


8559
Teapot stand A shaped teapot stand on ball and claw feet with bright-cut decoration, by Henry Green (overstamping Charles Aldridge) London 1786, crested with a martlet holding a cross crosslet fitchy .
Price: £445.00
6561
Spoon tray A shaped spoon tray with engraved decoration and central crest by Thomas James and Nathaniel Creswick, Sheffield 1841 crested with a stork on a column laid sideways, with fleur-de-lys.
Price: £425.00
9833
George III swing handled sugr basket bright-cut London 1796 Hennell A George III Swing handled sugar basket with bright-cut decoration, by Robert and David Hennell London 1796 (also marked on the handle with a lion passant), initialled {WER} .
Price: £395.00
7633
Teapot stand An oval bright-cut teapot stand, London 1799 and initialled {PHC}.
Price: £340.00
6471
Butter shell A butter-shell, London 1843, by Robert Garrard.
Price: £340.00
3089
George III Old Sheffield Plate salver A George III Old Sheffield Plate salver (21 cm in diameter) with three feet, circa 1770.
Price: £110.00
8166