A rare Privateer goblet dated 1775

A rare Privateer goblet dated 1775, possibly unique, the wide rounded bowl engraved with a two-masted ship and inscribed 'Success to the William and Elizabeth, William Snow Master 1775', with a large floral spray to the reverse, raised on a faceted stem, 16.5cm.

William Snow was a privateer from Jersey, listed as captain and part-owner of the William and Elizabeth between 1774 and 1776. He has a long and successful recorded career in this vein, listed as captain and part owner of the Charming Nancy during the Seven Years War, and with which he is recorded as having captured at least two enemy ships in 1758. He went on to captain the Charming Betty between 1776 and 1778, and the Alert in 1779. The William and Elizabeth is recorded by Lloyds as having been built by Maitland & Co, and was immortalised by Francis Holman, along with two other ships, in his painting c.1780 'A Dockyard at Wapping'.