Hall marks on gold & silver plate

ENGLISH GOLDSMITHS. 49
in 1732; but they cannot be confounded, as Platel's mark only occurs
on the New Standard, and he probably died about 1720, the last
piece we have met with being made in 17 19. The gold ewer above
mentioned was made many years before Paul de Lamerie entered
his name and mark of LA in 17 12.
1700. Stephen Child (son of the first Sir Francis) joined Mr.
Tudman, a goldsmith, "at y^ Crown in Lumbard St.," about this
date, and the representatives of that firm are now Messrs. Willis,
Percival and Co.
1700. Thomas Snow was a goldsmith at the " Golden Anchor,"
in the Strand. He was a very careful man of business. He succeeded
Sir Jeremiah Snow, of Lombard Street. The following story
is told by Mr. Frederick Martin, in his stories of "Banks and
"
Bankers." Sampson Gideon, a great Jew broker, had occasion to
borrow ;^20,ooo of Mr. Snow, the banker. Very shortly afterwards
a panic occurred, and Mr. Snow, alarmed for the safety of his loan,
addressed a piteous epistle to the Jew, entreating him to pay the
money at once, and thereby save him from bankruptcy and utter
ruin. Gideon knew his man well and determined to give him back
his coveted property, but to punish him at the same time for his
want of confidence. Accordingly he sent for a phial of hartshorn,
and wrapping it in twenty notes of iJ^ 1,000 each, returned the loan
in that form to Mr. Thomas Snow, goldsmith, near Temple Bar."
Thomas Snow, profiting by the experience of his predecessor. Sir
Jeremiah, was sagacious enough to avoid ruin in the fatal bubble
year of 1720. Mr. Gay celebrates his good fortune in an "Epistle
to Thomas Snow, goldsmith, near Temple Bar":
" O Thou ! whose penetrative wisdom found
'The South-sea rocks and shelves, where thousands drown'd,
When credit sunk, and commerce gasping lay.
Thou stood'st, nor sent'st one bill unpaid away ;
When not a guinea chink'd on Martin's boards,
And Attwell's self was drain'd of all his hoards."
The firm was subsequently Snow and Walton, goldsmiths and
pawnbrokers, like many other goldsmiths and bankers. About 1730
it was Snow and Paltock. In 1736 the firm was Snow and Co.
From 1754 to 1768, Snow and Denne. In 1768, William Sandby, 1
bookseller in Fleet Street, was associated with the firm. In 1798,
Mr. J. Dean Paul was admitted, and it became the bank of Paul,
Strahan, and Bates. In 1856 the house failed through the unscrupulous
conduct of some of the partners, who misappropriated
the securities left in their charge, and they were transported.
1700. Atwell and Co., goldsmiths and bankers, from about
1680 to 1720, when they railed. Their names are mentioned by Gay
in his poem addressed to Thomas Snow in 1720, the fatal South Sea
Bubble year, "And Atwell's self was drained of all his hoards."
1701. Simon Pantin, goldsmith and plate-worker, of the "Peacock,"
St. Martin's Lane, City, entered his name at the <strong>Hall</strong> in June,