The small silver tot cup with flaring folded rim and cast spreading foot;
marked verso; without engravings or erasures

Mark : Grimwade #2870, first registered mark, TP within a circle, 9.3.1733

"Tot cups" are small drinking vessels, sometimes with a single handle,
or handleless, in beaker form.
They are usually footed and dram size (about two inches).
Tot cups are said to be predecessors of the later Georgian "stirrup cups" -
so popular in both silver and ceramic from the mid-18th century forward.
Tot cups, like stirrup cups, were likely handed to riders before or after a hunt,
and meant to be drunk without putting the vessel down.
Early tot cups are also very scarce, of not rare.

Condition : Excellent, normal wear, and without repairs or splitting; good marks verso

1-7/8" High / 2" Wide / 1.2 oz.

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Scarce George II Silver Tot Cup, Thomas Parr II, London, c1730  

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