Samuel Wood (English, 1704-?)
Samuel Wood was born 1704, and in 1721 was apprenticed to Thomas Bamford who had been bound to Charles Adam. Wood came from a continuous line of specialist castor-makers. According to Arthur Grimwade so many were produced and were of such a ‘uniformly high standard and one of the most attractively designed smaller items of plate, without which no reasonably equipped table of the eighteenth century appears to have been complete’.
Information courtesy of Ivey-Selkirk, June 2003.