Series 1 > Diary of the Reverend John Mill, minister of the parishes of Dunrossness Sandwick and Cunningsburgh in Shetland, 1740-1803. With selections from local records and original documents relating to the district
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INTRODUCTION
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valuable work, Old Scottish Communion Plate, now in the
press, I am enabled to give drawings, by Mr. Alexander J. S.
Brook, of two of these cups, which are of silver. That orna¬
mented with incised lines bears the hall-mark of the city of
Hamburg, but the date cannot be fixed. It is also difficult to
say what the letters A.B.M.S. represent. The other cup is
stamped with the name-punch of James Welsh, who was admit¬
ted to the Incorporation of Goldsmiths of Edinburgh in 1746.
Mr. Brand adds that there are two very large black pewter¬
like plates, unfit for use, lying past as lumber; and a bap¬
tismal basin, also quite useless. The two large (probably
collecting) plates are doubtless of the old customary Nurem¬
berg make and pattern.
The Communion cups in use at the Church of Sandwick, as
I am informed by the Rev. C. Naime Baldie there, bear the
date ‘ 1854.1
XXXV
valuable work, Old Scottish Communion Plate, now in the
press, I am enabled to give drawings, by Mr. Alexander J. S.
Brook, of two of these cups, which are of silver. That orna¬
mented with incised lines bears the hall-mark of the city of
Hamburg, but the date cannot be fixed. It is also difficult to
say what the letters A.B.M.S. represent. The other cup is
stamped with the name-punch of James Welsh, who was admit¬
ted to the Incorporation of Goldsmiths of Edinburgh in 1746.
Mr. Brand adds that there are two very large black pewter¬
like plates, unfit for use, lying past as lumber; and a bap¬
tismal basin, also quite useless. The two large (probably
collecting) plates are doubtless of the old customary Nurem¬
berg make and pattern.
The Communion cups in use at the Church of Sandwick, as
I am informed by the Rev. C. Naime Baldie there, bear the
date ‘ 1854.1
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