A rare and unusual Charles II corn measure, of gallon capacity, dated 1683


Of slightly tapering cylindrical form, the body with a pair of upper and lower fillets, and bands of decorative line decoration, the angular handle with central ball and blade knop, the body engraved with cross-hatched letters 'THIS . IS . THE . CORNE . GALLON .' and with the date, in a different lettering, '1683', the rim with two crowned 'C' ciphers, and a pair of dagger marks for London, 18cm rim diameter x 23.5cm high
|Literature: A bronze gallon measure, dated 1707, and illustrated R. Gentle & R. Feild, Domestic Metalwork 1640 - 1820 (1998), p. 234, Figure 1, in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, has a similar handle with central discoid knop between two very ovoid swellings.