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Description: A Rare George III Copper Saucepan with Sheffield Plate Interior by Joseph Hancock & Co., circa 1760. Of four and half pint size with a turned laburnum wood handle stamped with makers mark. Illustrated in Crosskey, G., Old Sheffield Plate, Treffry Publishing, 2011, figure 66, page 66. Interestingly from The papers of Benjamin Franklin vol. 9, Yale University Press 1966, in the summer of 1759 Benjamin Franklin visited Sheffield and bought a set of three plated saucepans. In February the following year he wrote to his wife Deborah in Philadelphia saying: “I send you two saucepans, plated inside with Silver instead of tinning. I bought them at Sheffield, because I thought they would please you;…I got three, but keep the smallest here to make my Watergruel, and send you the largest and middlemost.” A9954.

Origin: English

Circa:1760

Availability: Sold

Stock Ref: 130-A9954

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