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Without pictures I can only be %80 certain it's a Marshes & Shepherd.

There's a chance it's not, as the Marsh clan got around a bit, but statistics are very much on the side of Marshes & Shepherd....

Ah, I see. That's why the end of the scales looked a little odd!

I'm guessing it's the moisture that draws dermestid beetles to that area around the wedge. Or maybe they just like trace quantities...

Okay, there's no doubt about that, it's a V R, which means it was made after 1837.

I think that means it was likely the son of William Marsh, helpfully also named William Marsh. Parish records...

Ack! Sorry it's taken a while to respond to this one, Roberto! I've been poking at it off and on for the last couple days since you posted the pictures.

Are you sure that's a V R under the crown?...