Beaker

This beaker, dated early to mid 17th century, the only one known with a cast inscription in English, was found with eight other objects (Acc. nos. A26823-A26828) in material covering the floor of an old brick cellar on the site of 63 Cheapside in the City of London in 1924. The cellar was 8’6” high; 12' long and 9' wide. Information from the London Museum manuscript register indicates that the group included: a porringer with SF and mullet touch (A26824); a small dish with narrow rim and NB and bird touch (A26825); an alms-dish with broad rim and central boss, G.S. on front and I I and lion on the back (A26826); and finally a bowl with an obscure touch (A26827). The other items comprised a drug jar, a ‘pocket dial’ of latten and a feather curler. Among the pewter items recovered from this site only this piece and A26827 are known, and the other items were apparently lost in the war.Pewter Society, 'Pewter: A Handbook of selected Tudor and Stuart pieces', 1983, pp 20.