Oval form with wood handle, stipple and bright-cut engraved upper band of flowers and leaves, the domed cover with urn-form finial. Engraved with the Ball family crest of a demi-lion rampant semée of estoiles holding a globe and issuing from a cloud to one side, the other with the crest of a hand grasping a sword erect, the blade enfiled with a boar's head.