Tankard

Tankard, the thumbplate is marked with an ownership triad of ‘D’ over ‘A’ and ‘S’. The body is inscribed ‘A Dent at ye Spotted Dog Bird Street Oxford road’. There is a crowned ‘WR’ verification mark below the rim to the left of the handle. The touch in the base with the initials ‘IP’ is the mark of John Phillips, London, OP3646, who was active from 1784 – 1838. His addresses were 13 King Street, Seven Dials (1793); 35 Crispin Street, Spitalfields (1794-1799); 61 Whitecross Street (1817) and16 Lamb Street, Spitalfields (1801-1820 as John Phillips & Sons). Date: 1784 – c.1838.

Bird Street was built before 1750, and extended on both sides of Oxford Street south to Brook Street and north to Henrietta Street. See‘London Past & Present: its history, associations, and traditions’, Vol I p187-8. (Wheatley, 1891.) The Spotted Dog tavern is mentioned in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, ref.: t17860830-98, 30th August, 1786 and Hazel Forsyth, 2011 pp XXX. The tavern is not listed in Lillywhite.