Lot 206
DUNDEE - A SET OF SIX SCOTTISH PROVINCIAL DESSERT SPOONS
WILLIAM SCOTT
Scottish Silver & Applied Arts
Auction: 17 August 2016 from 12:00 BST
Description
marked WS, pot of lilies, WS, M, of Old English pattern with feathered edges, twin crest and motto (6)
Dimensions
18cm long, 6.3oz
Footnote
The Crest of the Family of Jobson and an Unknown Family
The crest as engraved is that of the family of Jobson and an Unknown Family.
It may be blazoned as follows:
Crests: (Dexter) On a hand extended argent a falcon close or (for Jobson)
(Sinister) A Talbot statant (……?......) (for …..?......)
Motto: Patientia et animus [Patience and courage]
The family of Jobson were noted pillars of the community in Dundee during the 18th and early 19th Centuries. They were merchants who did good works within and without the Royal Burgh of Dundee. They sat on both the Forfarshire and the Dundee Chambers of Commerce. They were stated to be merchants, an agent for whalers, a director of the Dundee Bank, a cashier of the Dundee Bank, a Riga merchant and a Justice of the Peace. A Robert Jobson served as the Provost of Dundee in 1831. A member of the family - David Jobson, an oil and colour merchant, son of David Jobson, Wine Merchant lost his life in the Tay Rail Bridge Disaster in 1879. It is known that a member of the family, David Jobson was in possession of Balfour Castle, at Kingoldrum in the County of Angus (or Forfarshire) around the year 1810. After improving the estate, he sold it and was thereafter styled as 'Jobson of Haughhead of Glenogil'. His son was known to be living at Crawford Lodge, Dundee in the middle of the 19th Century. As there is a dearth of available genealogical information regarding the Jobsons, of Dundee it has not been possible to identify the second crest within any accuracy. Such a second crest would undoubtedly signify one of their number had married a heraldic heiress at some time. It is thought that the Jobsons originally hailed from England, in all probability from the County of Essex.