A Victorian sterling silver novelty breakfast cruet, London 1877 by George Fox

the twin cruet frame with shaped base and galleried top leading to a C scroll handle, the oval front cartouche engraved with a crest of a stag’s head erased below a Baron’s coronet. Fitted with a pepper pot and a mustard pot in the form of a barrel with incised concentric lines to simulate coopering. Each element fully marked, the mustard pot lid part-marked.

Length – 10 cm / 4 inches

Weight – 205 grams / 6.59 ozt

The crest is probably for Lister

Probably for Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale (1854 -1925), who ascended to the title upon the death of his father Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale (1828–1876).