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This is the engraving on a piece of Elgin silver c1820. Can anyone identify the owner please?

It is harder to identify with certainty when we do not have the tincture of the rose. That said, Fairbairn’s Book of Crests gives the following family names as bearing for a crest a rose: Abcot, Abcott, Anketel, Adderly, Aiton, Aitoune, Aytoun, Bull, Fraser, Gleig, Hesketh, Marmion, Pether, Shaw, Stowers, Thomson, Timins, Currey, Currie, Foxton, Hoole, Rushbrooke, Sparrow, Dorville, and Dupre. (Some of these are, obviously, different spellings of the same names.)

David

Thanks David. Fairbairn's is always my first reference when searching for a crest, but although there are plenty of roses none seem to match this one.
When I have more time, I think I may try cross referencing them with locations. This is on a piece by an Elgin maker, so it might be the case that it was made for a local family.

Paul.