Set of George II Silver Casters by Sam Wood
Date:
1746
Maker: Samuel Wood
Country: England
Stock Number: 6354
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Set of George II Silver Casters by Sam Wood
Date:
1746
Maker: Samuel Wood
Country: England
Stock Number: 6354
Description
A handsome set of 3 antique silver castors with pierced removable tops. Classic plain style.
Weight 474 grams, 15.2 troy ounces. T
all castor - height 17 cms, London 1753.
Pair of smaller castors - height 14.8 cms,
London 1746.
Maker Sam Wood.
Sterling silver
Biography
Samuel Wood
Samuel Wood (c.1704-1794), apprenticed to Thomas Bamford 1721, free 1730. First mark entered as largeworker, 1733. Second mark circa 1738. Third mark 1739. Fourth mark entered 1754. Fifth mark 1756. Warden 1758-60, and Prime Warden 1763. Through his apprenticeship to Thomas Bamford, who had been bound to Charles Adam, Wood came of a continuous line of specialist caster-makers and in turn trained both Jabez Daniell and Robert Piercey (q.v.), both clearly established also in the same line of production. Wood’s cruets and individual casters, although produced in quantity are of a uniformly high standard and one of the most attractively designed smaller items of plate, without which no reasonably equipped table of the eighteenth century appears to have been complete.
Condition
These antique silver castors are in very good condition. Stamped with English silver hallmarks. for London All same maker. Small castors dated 1746. Large castor dated 1753. Minor variation in the piercing.