Hall marks on gold & silver plate

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sion is that it represented the identical bottle carried by the founder
of the firm when he came to London to seek his fortune.
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, the celebrated Wiltshire antiquary,
attempts to destroy this romance in his family history ; he says the
bottle is merely a sign adopted by James Hoare, the founder of the
bank, from his father having been citizen and cooper of the city of
London, but, in fact, coopers did not make leathern bottles or any
wooden vessels of that shape.
1649. Thomas Jameson, goldsmith, gave ;^ioo for the poor of
the Company.
1680. Mr. Fells, goldsmith, "The Bunch of Grapes," Strand.
The following advertisement appears in a newspaper of October
29th, 1680 : "There was dropt out of a balcony in Cheapside a very
large watch case studded with gold; if any person hath taken it
away and will bring it to Mr. Fells, goldsmith, at the '
sign of The
'
Bunch of Grapes in the Strand, he shall have a guinney reward."
1680-1702. Marot (Daniel), a Huguenot artificer and designer,
was originally an architect. He was brought to this country by William
III from Holland, where he had taken refuge. His works have
been described as " an inexhaustible treasury of models for gold and
silver." The candlesticks, in the form of corinthian columns
(prompted by his early pursuits), were probably designed by him,
although popularly ascribed to the period of Queen Anne. He
doubtless was the cause of a great improvement in the style of plate
of the Anne era now so much appreciated.
1680. Pierre Earache, an eminent goldsmith and plateworker,
of Suffolk Street, Charing Cross, emigrated from France after the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The first time we meet with his
mark is on the copper plate at Goldsmiths' <strong>Hall</strong> between 1675 and
1697. The first record of his name is of the latter year. The earliest
pieces of plate we have seen are an old standard two-handled cup of
the year 1691, and a fine helmet-shaped ewer of the New Standard of
1697, engraved with the arms of William III, presented by the King
to the Duke of Devonshire, weighing seventy ounces. He died in
1700, and was succeeded by his son Peter Harache, junior, then residing
in Compton Street, Soho. The father's mark was his initials with
two ermines above, surmounted by a crown, and a crescent under, to
which the son added a fleur-de-lis between the letters. The latest
pieces ,we have met with are of 1 705-6, probably the date of his
death. The important and massive plate made for the Duke of
Marlborough, with several others, will be found noted in the Appendix,
being all of the new standard.
1 68 1. Heneage Price, goldsmith, took the lease of a house on
the south side of the Strand, without Temple Bar, in the parish of
St. Clement's Danes in 1681.
In a minute of the vestry book of Hadley, dated April 11,
1687, "it was agreed that Mr. Tayler, W. Dale and Daniel Hudson,
churchwardens, and George Baron, overseer for the poor, shall go to