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Sugar Caster

(1771–1832)
1700–01
Object PlaceEdinburgh, Scotland
Medium/TechniqueSilver
DimensionsHeight: 24cm (9 7/16in.)
Diameter: 9.2cm (3 5/8in.)
Weight: 504.6 gm (16 oz 4 dwt)
Credit LineHarry W. Anderson Fund
Accession number1987.57a-b
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ClassificationsSilver
Collections
InscriptionsARMORIALS: engraved on front, the crest and motto of Thomson of Charleton
ProvenanceAbout 1700/1701, probably made for John Thomson, Charleton, Fife, Scotland. By 1986, Brand Inglis, Ltd., London; 1987, sold by Brand Inglis to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 21, 1987)
Walter Scott
1869
Walter Brind
1775–76
Walter Brind
1760–61
Georges Bertin Scott
1917
Isaac Scott Hathaway
1952
Spoon
H.N. Walter
1833–50
Bench
Richard Scott Newman
1986
Eve
Joyce J. Scott
1985
J. W. Scott
dated 1861, struck 1879
J. W. Scott
dated 1861, struck 1879