Identity area
Reference code
SJCR/SJAR/5/1/15/2
Unique identifier
Title
Date(s)
- 1934-2003 (Creation)
Level of description
Sub-sub-sub-series
Extent and medium
2 items, 4 files, paper
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes: two copies of the SJC plate catalogue [plate book] by Sir Alfred Jones, the first is Jones' copy and the second belongs to the Junior Bursar as checked at the silver audit in August 1963 by the Master, the Senior Bursar and the Junior Bursar; a list of plate with accompanying papers previously held in the College Buttery and Master's Lodge but moved to the strong-room in 1939; a list of silver moved from the Master's Lodge when J.S. Boys Smith vacated the lodge and subsequently was returned to the Lodge in April 1970; a copy of the College plate list kept by the Junior Bursar comparing the audit of 1978 with the catalogue of 1934; a list of sporting trophies held in the strong-room in May 1994; the plate catalogue for 2003. Also includes loose notes concerning damage to silver, meetings of the Silver Committee, additional items to be added to the plate catalogue, the annual silver audit, gift of silver from Glyn and Ruth Daniel including a sketch of the the chalice. Additionally includes a list of entries in the College accounts concerning the plate; correspondence between Hugh Gatty and Alfred Jones concerning Jones' plate catalogue; rough notes listing amount spent on silver at different points in the College's history, a sketch for the copy of aremy in the monument to Richard Lowther. a letter concerning four Trencher Salt Cellars and their provenance as early American silver, and a list of silver deposited in the strong-room in August 1950.