Featured Adams Jasperware Tobacco or Biscuit Jar

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?

 

Love the color. Nice find.

 

not my jam....but I'd still have grabbed it !!!!

 

Seems to have the same marks as this one
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1007068896/

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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!!

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

Thanks for everyone’s input!