Description
A right circular, straight-sided, cylindrical silver half pint mug with two sockets on the side into which are rivetted a carved, elongated-C-shaped fruitwood handle with thumb-scroll. Initials and a crest are engraved at the front. The pot is made of a good gauge of silver with substantial wires at both rim and base; the base plate alone is struck with an identifying maker’s mark (see below). The pot has a tightly fitting, detachable, domed lid with turned finial, made of similar gauge silver but un-marked. The interior surfaces of both pot and lid are gilded.
Initials and Crest:
The monogram ‘WDM’ is engraved beneath the widely used crest of ‘an arm in armour embowed holding in the hand a cutlass / scimitar’. The engraving is original.
Dimensions & Weight:
Diameter: 6.8 cm / 2 ¾ ins; Height (to lip of pot): 8.9 cm / 3 ½ in.; Height (to top of handle): 12.3 cm / 4 7/8 ins.; Max. Capacity: 285 ml / ½ pint; Weight: 242 gm
Maker’s marks:
The maker’s mark of an upper case Roman ‘A R’ in a rectangular punch appears off-centre on the base. This is consistent with that used by Alexander Raitt of Calcutta.
For further information on Alexander Raitt, see Wynyard R. T. Wilkinson, The Makers of Indian Colonial Silver, 1987, pp. 165-6.
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