The Collection

This presentation silver gravyboat was presented to Truro Corporation on the departure of the mayor Dr Mabel Andrews who acted as mayor between 1965-6. The gravy boat is part of an speciment from a larger collection of silverware presented to Truro City Council at City Hall on the ocassion of royal visits, shifts in power within the city. Also part of the collection are records of people who have received the Freedom of the City of Truro. This gravyboat has a clear hallmark denoting the makers mark and information which describes the gravyboat having been made in the city of Sheffield in 1956, nine years before it was given to the inhabitants of City Hall.