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Show By Hammer and Band All Arts Doe Stand. The Blacksmiths' cup, which formerly belonged to the Blacksmiths' company, of England, was a tall cup of silver 1H inches high, without a cover, the bowl engraved with the anus of the Blacksmiths' Black-smiths' company and decorated with tooled granulated ornaments, the stem formed as a figure of Vulcan standing by his anvil, on which is engraved the motto, "By hammer and hand all arts doe stand," and round the brim inscribed, "The gift of Christopher Pym, upon his admission to the place of clerk of this company." com-pany." The hall mark upon it is of 1850. The cup was in the famous collection of Ralph Bemal, and afterward passed into that of Mr. Dexter, and is described and engraved in Cripps' "Old English Plate." It weighs 80 ounces 4 pennyweights. penny-weights. It was recently sold and brought 535. When sold in the Bernal collection in 1855 it was bought for 37 10 shillings by Gen. Lygon, who sold it to Mr. Dexter Dex-ter for 25, but in Mr. Dexter's sale, in 1872, it sold for 367 10 shillings. Jew-elers- Weekly; ' . |