Description

A silver-plated jug ( height :5″) presented to a member of a “Female Sick Club” in 1880 to honor her service. Sick clubs existed in the UK before the introduction of National Health.They were groups that self-insured members against the cost of medical care. Marjorie Levine-Clark in her book, The Politics of Women’s Health and Work in Victorian England, Ohio University Press, 2004:64, discusses womens sick clubs and we’ve provided a link to her discussion of the topic below. The makers of this jug were Martin Hall & Co. Ltd  of Sheffield (1866-1936). Apart from its historic interest, the pitcher is attractively engraved in the Aesthetics Movement style. There is some wear to the interior gilding but the plated and engraved exterior is in very good condition. What seems like a small spot of lost plating in the first image is flash reflection; see second image to confirm this. 

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