Baluster shaped, small sterling silver pepper caster with detachable pierced cover, surmounted by a finial. The hall-marks are struck inside the foot
Maker :- Samuel Wood
Condition :-Very good condition with excellent hallmarks. This is a most attractive pepper which would grace any dinner table
Hallmarked :- London 1747
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Size :- 4.5 inches (11.4cm) high
Weight :- 2.07ozt (64.4g)
Samuel Wood came from a continuous line of specialist caster-makers. Although his production of cruets and individual casters was extremely prolific, he maintained a uniformly high standard. No reasonably equipped table in the eighteenth century was complete without these attractively designed items