Featured Adams Jasperware Tobacco or Biscuit Jar

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  1. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    Picked up this piece of Adams Jasperware.

    my understanding is that a biscuit jar would be handled, making this possibly a tobacco jar?

    The Coat of Arms is that of Ipswich, England.

    markings on the bottom are doubled:

    Adams
    Est 1657
    Tunstall
    England

    The top band appears to be sterling, however the silver marks are not consistent with a full set of British marks (missing the assay office and what should be a date letter appears to be the number 1). The duty mark appears to be Queen Victoria

    any thoughts?

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  2. pearlsnblume

    pearlsnblume Well-Known Member

    Love the color. Nice find.
     
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  3. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    not my jam....but I'd still have grabbed it !!!!:happy:
     
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  4. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    Seems to have the same marks as this one
    https://www.etsy.com/listing/1007068896/
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    Info from seller:
    Silver collar is hallmarked. Hallmarks are worn but appear to be right to left-
    Leopard head, Lion passant, date letter n “London, sterling silver, 1908”
    Makers Mark MF in co-joined circles for Maurice Freeman 26 Clerkenwell Road London
     
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  5. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

    Is the lid deep enough to hold a sponge? Isn't that expected in a tobacco jar?
     
  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Only in a humidor, not in a run of the mill tobacco jar.
    I have a modest collection of Dutch tobacco jars that were not made to have sponges.
     
  7. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    It isn’t a one, it’s a lower case L. Cartouche shape is Birmingham, and the duty head is George V for 1910, his accession year.
     
  8. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    wonderful, thank you!

    I can’t say I’ve ever seen a set of marks completely missing the assay mark, and I wasn’t aware of a George V duty mark. I’m aware of the Jubilee commemoration mark with both heads, but that’s a product of 1935.

    always learning, that’s why I love this hobby!!
     
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  9. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    What I was thinking as the duty mark could be the leopard head for London (as noted above with the Etsy link) which has a lower case L date mark that looks like a 1 in 1906
     
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  10. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I’ve seen missing assay office marks before now. I don’t think the London l is the right cartouche shape? There were usually monarch heads in accession years.
     
  11. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    do you have an image of the George V head?

    my normal resource for British marks shows Queen Victoria as the last duty mark, additionally stating that the duty mark was abolished in 1890 at the end of her reign

    https://www.925-1000.com/british_marks.html

    the dual head George V & Queen Mary jubilee mark in 1935 was commemorative and not considered a duty mark

    there is definitely some variation in cartouche shapes on this set of marks
     
  12. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    Gotta say, I see London 1906, maker's mark 'M ?'...

    Duty marks weren't used past 1889/90, commemorative marks started in 1935 (George V Silver Jubilee).

    ~Cheryl
     
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  13. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I’ll go with Cheryl on this, she’s usually the maven! Let me go check Jackson’s….

    And I should have said commemorative mark rather than duty, agreed.
     
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  14. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    Possibly …..??


    Manoah Rhodes & Sons LtdLondon
    maker's mark (MR) reg. c.1915
    also Sheffield


    the date range is off by about 10 years, though it is a circa estimate

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  15. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    Thanks for everyone’s input!
     
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