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English examples were developed in the mid 18th century when the Chinese tea bottle was superseded by the tea caddy, having an opening large enough to accommodate a small spoon to dispense and measure the tea and when the cover (the thimble top) was no longer used as a measure.  Caddy spoons were always required to be hallmarked, being excluded from the exemption of the English act of 1790 relating to small articles.","physicalDescription":"","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Snatt, Josiah","id":"A11028"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2015HT4292","2015HT4293","2015HT4294","2015HT4291"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"018","id":"THES408933"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Caddy spoon","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1801-1802","earliest":"1801-01-01","latest":"1802-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Mark of Josiah Snatt identified by members of the Caddy Spoon Society during a visit in September 2015.\nJosiah Snatt: \"Duty was paid in 1778 by George Baskerville (Grimwade p.432-3), silversmith of Albion Buildings, for the apprentice indentures of Josiah Snatt.\r\nA marriage record at St Leonard, Shoreditch in 1783 made in the names of Joseph Snatt and Margaret Turnbull was, in fact, signed by Josiah Snatt as the groom. This marriage was within seven years of the start of his apprenticeship and would have broken the normal conditions of his indentures. It may be one explanation why no record has been found of his obtaining his freedom, another being that no evidence for his master’s freedom has been found. \r\nThere are christening records at St Leonard, Shoreditch in 1784 for John, son of Josiah and Margaret Snatt of Christopher’s Alley and at St Mary, Islington in 1788 for another son John both of which confirm the marriage register naming Joseph Snatt was made out in error. \r\nIn records of Duty paid for the apprentice indentures of William Willis in 1802 and of Francis Powell in 1808 he referred to himself as a working jeweller from St Botolph’s parish, Aldersgate rather than as a freeman of a livery company.\r\nJosiah Snatt had entered a mark at Goldsmiths’ Hall in 1798 as a small worker from Fan Street near Goswell Street and was assessed to Land Tax on property there until 1819 at which point, until 1822, the assessments were made on Jas. Snatt. \r\nNo further information has been found for Josiah or a connection between him and Sarah Snatt who had entered a mark at Goldsmiths’ Hall in 1819 as a small worker from Fan Street. (Grimwade, p. 665)\r\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Silver, London, 1801-2; with mark JS, probably for Josiah Snatt. ","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["1255-1902"],"accessionNumberNum":"1255","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1902,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-06-10","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":true}}