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I mustard mitt…

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…that I didn’t know if these pots for the home meal table were even still made as I remember my Dad explaining that Mr. Coleman — of eponymous mustard fame — apocryphally made his fortune on the mustard that was left on the side of the plate. I used to laugh at this.

An Edward VII antique silver oval mustard pot of generous proportions, engraved with a castle crest within a foliate armorial surround with thread edging, domed hinged cover with compressed ball finial and angular handle, 8cm high, makers mark S.G for R & S Garrard and Co (Sebastian Henry Garrard) subsequently Garrard & Co, London 1906, 152gms, 4.8ozt, with original clear glass liner and a George III old English pattern mustard spoon, makers mark T.W. for Thomas Wallis, London 1808.
©Jethro Marles

To answer my own vague question. Yes, they are still being made. And the old ones, the silver ones, the antique ones, go for sums of money that bring the same tears to the eye as does a too large and injudicious amount of mustard on your fork…

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