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The Public Advertiser, London, June 27, 1761
STOLEN
From Mr. James Taylor, in Howard’s Rope-Walk, near the Hermitage,
A Silver gadroon’d Salt, Weight about 2 oz. also a Pepper Box, both marked with the Letters I.T.S and the Workman’s Mark T.B.
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The Public Advertiser, London, June 27, 1761

STOLEN

From Mr. James Taylor, in Howard’s Rope-Walk, near the Hermitage, 
A Silver gadroon’d Salt, Weight about 2 oz. also a Pepper Box, both marked with the Letters I.T.S and the Workman’s Mark T.B.
If offered to be pawned or sold, please to stop them and the Party, and give Notice as above, and you shall have all reasonable Satisfaction.

Google tells me that a pepper-box is a type of gun, and gadrooning is a decorative motif, so I’m going to go on a limb here and assume that this man is missing two guns and not a set of salt and pepper shakers like I originally assumed.

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  20. yesterdaysprint said: You could be very right! After posting this I kept going through the archives and there’s actually a lot of crockery and spoons and things like that listed in the Stolen and Lost ads!
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    Also, given the weight of 2 oz., I’m pretty sure these actually are silver-decorated salt and pepper boxes. Even the...
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  27. yesterdaysprint said: That’s just what I’ve noticed though, I’m not 100% sure of when an s should be a long s or a short s (if I was going to try and write something as if it were 1750, I wouldn’t know which to use!), I’m sure somebody knows some rules of thumb???
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  30. yesterdaysprint said: It’s a long s! They mostly disappeared around 1800, but before then they were usually found at the beginning or the middle of a word and usually when two s’s are together you’d find a long s and a short s, and usually when there’s an “st” it’d be written with a long s. You can tell it from an f usually by it’s lack of a cross bar. You rarely see it in print after about 1820, although some, especially older people, still wrote with it until 1850 and sometimes later.
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  35. baedlyweathered said: Yeah a salt is also a gun
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