Wkstriapp — Dates on Plate belonging to Trinity Collet/r. 7'.) 



not have been put on in 1714) agree with the date at which Robert Hopkins 

 supplied plate to the College. 



A salver with inscription and date 1692 bears the Dublin hall-marks for 

 about 1760. The salver is circular, with shell and gadroon border, and rests 

 on four ball-and-claw feet. Such a pattern was never heard of in 1092, the 

 shell and gadroon edge not appearing for about fifty years later. 



The same remarks apply to a salvei with inscribed date 109.'!, and bearing 

 tbe Dublin hall-marks for about 1760. 



There are six other circular salvers, each on three feet, with inscribed 

 dates varying from 1693 to 1702, and bearing hall-marks of about 1760 and 

 1730. 



There are four oblong sauce-boats and covers, with gadroon edges, each on 

 four scroll feet, inscribed with dates of gift (different donors) of 1699 and 

 1710, and all bear the same Dublin hallmarks of about 1770 and the maker's 

 mark, probably of John Locker. This form of sauce-boat was unknown at the 

 dates indicated by the inscriptions. Sauce-boats are found dating from about 

 the second decade of the eighteenth century, the earliest ones being somewhat 

 boat-shaped, with a lip at either end, and two handles, one on each side. 



Two saltcellars, inscribed with date of gift 1707, bear the Dublin hall- 

 marks for about 1760 and maker's mark of probably James Warren. These 

 saltcellars are circular, each on three lion head feet — a fashion which did not 

 come in until about 1720-30. The saltcellars of 1707 would have been the 

 ordinary trencher-salt pattern, which lasted down till about 1725 or even 

 later. 



Pieces of plate such as wine-coolers, boxes, &c, having four claw or scroll 

 feet, are found dating from the second half of the seventeenth century ; and 

 standing salts, tankards, &c, with three ball feet are found of the latter part 

 of the sixteenth century; but the three feet with lion or human masks or 

 shell bosses, found on cream-ewers, sauce-boats, saltcellars, &c, were not 

 introduced until between 1720 and 1730. It is a curious coincidence that a 

 number of pieces of the plate belonging to Trinity College, Dublin, bear the 

 maker's mark 1W, probably that of James Warren, a Dublin silversmith, 

 working from about 1750 to 1790, and that in 1775 James Warren, silver- 

 smith, was paid the sum of £474, presumably for plate supplied to the 

 College. 



There are also belonging to the College forty-four pistol-handle knives 

 and forty-eight pistol-handle forks, with inscribed dates varying from 1708 

 to l.yo, and all bearing the same Dublin hall-marks for about 1730-40. It 

 seems curious that these pieces given at such different dales and by different 

 donors should all bear identically the same hall-mark of a later period. 



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