Thomas Sewell I registered his first mark on 20^th January 1846 and further marks up to 1^st June 1866. He had been apprenticed to Thomas Watson in 1818. Thomas Watson was one of the most prominent of Newcastle silver-smiths at the time. Thomas Sewell was Warden of the Newcastle company of Goldsmiths some 15 times and is reported not to have missed a single meeting, obviously he took the job very seriously! These tongs are plain, fiddle pattern, quite normal for the period and have a full set of hallmarks for 1861. The monogram is little unusual in that it is a betrothal monogram but in script form.

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