Ø CAPTAIN HARDY'S HOT PUNCH JUG, CIRCA 1805 marked for Rober...

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£2,400

Ø CAPTAIN HARDY'S HOT PUNCH JUG, CIRCA 1805

marked for Robert Garrard, London, 1804 and designed as a coopered barrel with hinged cover and ivory acorn finial, silver handle with ivory insulators, the front engraved with the initials T.H. within a garter further inscribed THE GIFT OF SIR M.M.SYKES BART.1805 -- 8in. (20cm.) high; 990 grams/31 oz.tr.; together with a rectangular painted wooden cellar label for Hardy's rum inscribed RUM Sr. T. Hardy -- 4½in. (11 cm.) long, IDN: 5SK5XJDB

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Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, 3rd Baronet (1771–1823), was a politician and celebrated book collector. His wife Henrietta Masterman was an heiress and kinswoman of Captain Hardy’s mother Nanny Masterman. Both Sir Mark Sykes and Captain Hardy incorporated the Masterman name into their own. This jug, designed for serving hot grog or rum punch, may have been a gift in recognition of Captain Hardy’s exploits at the Battle of Trafalgar.