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An English silver jug with lid, makers mark Hunt & Roskell Late Storr & Mortimer, London 1881.

Estimate
18 000 - 20 000 SEK
1 590 - 1 770 EUR
1 640 - 1 820 USD
Hammer price
17 000 SEK
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An English silver jug with lid, makers mark Hunt & Roskell Late Storr & Mortimer, London 1881.

Lid knob in the form of a wild boars head. Inscription inside the lid. Height 21.5 cm. Weight 782 g.

Provenance

According to the accompanying plaque earlier in the collection of Lord Manton.

More information

Silversmiths and jewelers to Queen Victoria. Successors to Mortimer & Hunt on the retirement of John Mortimer. Objects from this source are also in the holdings of the Dept of Asia. They were still trading by at least as late as 1876.
Hunt & Roskell, a firm of manufacturing and retail jewelers and silversmiths, was founded by Paul Storr in 1819, trading as Storr & Co. (1819-22), Storr & Mortimer (1822-38), Mortimer & Hunt (1838-43) and then Hunt & Roskell (1843-97). Hunt & Roskell had retail premises at 156 New Bond Street and a manufactory at 26 Harrison Street, near Clerkenwell. John Samuel Hunt, who had assisted Storr from the start, continued as a partner until his death in 1865, when he was succeeded by his son, John Hunt (d.1879). Robert Roskell, formerly a watchmaker and merchant of Liverpool, joined in 1844 and remained in the firm until his death in 1888. In 1889 the firm was taken over by J.W. Benson and continued in business as Hunt & Roskell Ltd until c.1965.