Rummer

Rummer with a u-shaped bowl, plain stem and plain conical foot with a pontil mark. It is wheel-engraved with a topsail schooner, inscribed above in diamond point: 'Julia of Wells'. On the other side, within palm branches flanked by bunches of grapes, is the diamond point inscription: 'Francis Southgate 1854'. The rummer is likely to have been engraved on the East Coast.

Object Details

ID: GGG0194
Type: Rummer
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Julia of Wells ca.1854
Date made: circa 1854
People: Southgate, Francis
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Jacobs Collection
Measurements: Overall: 170 x 110 mm