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Tankards & Mugs

Browse our Collection of beautiful Silverware Antiques. Our handsome silver tankards and mugs are very collectable and can be used and enjoyed.
Antique Sterling Silver Tankards. This name is traditionally used for a single handed drinking vessel with a lid. Tankards are usually much bigger than mugs and sometimes have a quart capacity or more.

Browse our Collection of beautiful Silverware Antiques. Our handsome silver tankards and mugs are very collectable and can be used and enjoyed.
Antique Sterling Silver Tankards. This name is traditionally used for a single handed drinking vessel with a lid. Tankards are usually much bigger than mugs and sometimes have a quart capacity or more. The earliest date at which the familiar shaped tankard occurs is circa 1640 although these are exceedingly rare.
Antique Silver Peg Tankards. The name 'peg tankard' is derived from the vertical row of cylindrical pegs soldered inside the tankard, used to measure the amount of alcohol drunk as the tankard was passed around the table. Each drinker could drink his allocated peg measure. The term 'peg' probably derives from the Danish measure 'paegl', roughly equivalent to a pint. Peg tankards have a long history in the Scandinavian and Baltic countries. In England peg tankards were made from the mid-1650s through to the 1680s in York, Hull and other north-eastern towns with close cultural links with northern Europe. They usually follow the Scandinavian form, incorporating floral engraving and pomegranate feet. There is a plain example similar to this in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ref: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/195229.
Antique Sterling Silver Mugs. This term is traditionally used for a single-handed, lidless drinking vessel. They are nearly all of either pint or half pint capacity. Mugs are very rarely found as early as tankards, the earliest seeming to date from about 1680.
Antique Sterling Silver Christening Mugs. Small size mugs make a lovely gift for a babyAntique Silver Flagons. The earliest form of flagon used for serving wine, beer and other cold drinks date from the late 16^th and early 17^th century. These are extremely rare and would originally have had a companion dish or basin. Large cylindrical flagons with hinged covers were mainly made for church use and date from the second half -of the 17^th century through to the 19^th century.

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