Hall marks on gold & silver plate

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HALL MARKS ON PLATE.
EXAMPLES.
Leith. Five Tea Spoons, French pTit-
50I 1^ @ tern. Eighteenth century. Earl of
Breadalbane.
Leith. Tea Spoon and Tongs, French
[vve] @ ($) pattern. Eighteenth century. Earl of
Breadalbane.
Leith. Caddy Spoon, shell shaped
bowl, fiddle head, with Scottish stan-
dard mark and that of a provincial
town; no duty letter, but made about
1820, judging from the fashion. Earl
of Breadalbane.
Leith. A Scottish Brooch of conventional
form, with circular broad band,
plain surface, short pin at back with
hinge and clasp; stamped behind with
five <strong>marks</strong>. Earl of Breadalbane.
MONTROSE (Angus).
A Burgh Royal, as relative to the name, carries roses. Thus, in
the Lyon Register, the arms are given as : Argent, a double rose
gides, with helmet, mantling, and wreath suitable thereto.
The town mark, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was
therefore a rose or double rose, in a shield or circle.
PERTH.
The arms of the city of Perth {alias St. John's Town) so called
since the Reformation are :
An
eagle displayed with two heads or,
surmounted on the breast with an escutcheon gules, charged with the
holy Lamb, passant regardant, carrying the banner of St. Andrezu,
ivithin a double tressure, floivered and counter-floxuered argent, with
the hackneyed motto, " PRO Rege LEGE ET GREGE."
Goldsmiths have been established in this city from early times.
In the middle of the seventeenth century the town mark was the
lamb bearing the banner of St. Andrew. Somewhat later the doubleheaded
eagle displayed had come into use, and continued to be used
until the beginning of the present century.
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EXAMPLES.
On a small quaigh, or cup with two
handles, date about 1660, with these
two <strong>marks</strong> only. The lamb and flag,
emblem of St. John, being the arms
of St. John's Town, as Perth was
formerly called. C. A. North, Esq.