A RARE COPPER 4½ PINT SAUCEPAN WITH SHEFFIELD PLATE INTERIOR BY JOSEPH HANCOCK & CO

A RARE COPPER 4½ PINT SAUCEPAN WITH SHEFFIELD PLATE INTERIOR BY JOSEPH HANCOCK & CO, C1760 with turned laburnum wood handle, maker's mark Illustrated: Crosskey (G), Old Sheffield Plate, second edition, 2013, fig 66.In the autumn of 1759 Benjamin Franklin visited Sheffield, where he bought a set of three plated saucepans. In a letter to his wife Deborah in Philadelphia he wrote "I send you two saucepans, plated inside with silver instead of tinning. I bought them at Sheffield because I thought they would please you; ... I got three, but keep the smallest here to make my Watergruel, and send you the largest and middlemost."