Rare Sterling Silver Banded Oak Coopered Jug

Rare Sterling Silver Banded Oak Coopered Jug by Frazer and Haws, London.
The Silver and Oak Jug of good size with oak strips mounted in rare sterling silver strapping resembling a coopered whiskey barrel. Each strap fitted with rounded screws with a large loop handle, beaded top rim, turned silver finial and large hinged lid with pouring spout. The Jug is hallmarked sterling, London, Frazer and Haws and dated 1873 in various places and signed to the base Frazer & Haws, 31 Regent St. London and bears two coat of arms to the top a boars head and the prince of Wales feathers. The Silver and Oak Coopered Jug dates to the middle of the Victorian period and the second half of the 19th century, 1873. The Silver and Oak Coopered Jug is a rare example with sterling silver mounts, typically these examples are plated silver and not sterling.