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Elaborate Sterling Grape Shears

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Silver: Sterling: Pre 1900   item# 809350

Elaborate Sterling Grape Shears
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$400 

Of solid cast silver the handles of these 7-inch-long shears have impressive heft. Blades are of surgical-quality close-plated steel. American, circa 1900.


Impressive Sterling Grape Basket

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Silver: Sterling: Pre 1910   item# 809080

Impressive Sterling Grape Basket
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$2400 

Deceptively heavy at 23 Troy ounces, this superb object is finely designed and detailed. Manufactured by Towle Silversmiths around 1910, and marketed by Theodore Starr of New York City, it is approximately 9-1/4 inches in diameter and 6-1/2 inches tall to the top of its handsome swing handle. Excellent condition, with no damage or repairs.


George III Sterling Platter

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Silver: Sterling: Pre 1800   item# 506173

George III Sterling Platter
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$3200 

This 11 by 15-1/4 inch sterling silver is in exceptionally fine condition and of massive weight, a bit over 3-1/2 pounds. It bears the London hallmarks of 1789-90, maker William Simons.


Baronial Shreve Dresser Service

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Silver: Sterling: Pre 1900   item# 493860

Baronial Shreve Dresser Service
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$6600 

Incorporating a fortune in Renaissance and later coins, this magnificent set is composed of two large decanters, a covered powder box and a shoe horn. It is marked "Geo.C. Shreve & Co. San Francisco." Circa 1880, superb condition. The decanters are 8-1/2 inches high and 5-1/2 inches wide, the powder box is 5-3/4 inches high and 4-1/4 inches in diameter and the shoe horn is 10-1/4 inches in length and two inches wide at the base. Of heavy-gauge silver, the set weighs in at approx ...click for details


Antique Neo-Rococo Sterling Coffee Pot

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Silver: Sterling: Pre 1900   item# 109303 (stock# 256AAA)

Antique Neo-Rococo Sterling Coffee Pot
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$2450.00 

An excellent example of Neo-Rococo design is this Scottish sterling silver coffee pot of baluster form, hallmarked by James McKay, Edinburgh, 1847-48, with its sweeping ogee ivory-insulated handle and corresponding spout. It is approximately 12-1/2 inches high and 9-1/4 inches at the widest points and is superbly engraved with a Rococo “R” on one side; the condition is mint.


18th Century Spanish Colonial Dish

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Silver: Sterling: Pre 1800   item# 23792 (stock# 174AAA)

18th Century Spanish Colonial Dish
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$475 

Perhaps a paten cover, this finely wrought dish was a scalloped border of rays and pearls. The marks indicate its provenance and age: Guatemala, probably Cuidad Real, first half of the Eighteenth Century. Diameter approximately 4-3/4 inches.


Pair George III Sterling Sauce Ladles

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Silver: Sterling: Pre 1800   item# 22809 (stock# 165AAA)

Pair George III Sterling Sauce Ladles
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Bearing the short-lived incuse king’s-head mark of 1785-6, this rare pair of sterling silver sauce ladles were created by Thomas Northcote of London. The elegantly simple handles are enhanced by feathery bright-cut engraving, and there is a chapleted bull’s head armorial crest engraved on the back of each. The bowls are in the form of strongly fluted shells. Fine, undamaged condition. Each approximately 7-1/2 inches in length with 2-1/4 inches in diameter for the bowls.


Georgian Sterling Silver Sauce Ladle

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Silver: Sterling: Pre 1837 VR   item# 22808 (stock# 164AAA)

Georgian Sterling Silver Sauce Ladle
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$800 

Very much in the George III style and incorporating a silver coin of that king’s reign in its silver bowl is this extraordinary sauce ladle, perhaps made to fit into a service of earlier manufacture. The handle is chased and engraved in a rococo chinoiserie manner, with fronds and flowers and an oriental parasol finial. The bowl is repousséd with panels of flowers and a shield. A snarling wolf is the armorial crest and the marks indicate the makers as William, Eley, William Fearn and William ...click for details


George III Irish Cowry Shell Snuff Box

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Silver: Sterling: Pre 1837 VR   item# 22609 (stock# 157AAA)

George III Irish Cowry Shell Snuff Box
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Silver-mounted cowry shells were coveted as snuff boxes two hundred years ago and are rarely hallmarked. However, this handsome example bears the “AER” mark of Georgian Dublin’s Aeneas Ryan. In good, heavy weight, it sports a finely sculpted astragal border and elaborate monogram above the fine integral hinge. The condition is very good, with one small metal fill at the base of the shell. Approximately 3-1/8 inches by 2-3/8 inches by 1-1/4 inches deep.


Grand Sterling Silver Aesthetic Movement Cup

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Silver: Sterling: Pre 1900   item# 21607 (stock# 147AAA)

Grand Sterling Silver Aesthetic Movement Cup
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$385 

A quite baronial product is this straight-sided streling silver mug by the Whiting Manufacturing Company of Providence, R.I. With domino rim top and bottom, it bears a wonderful strapped and banded design over most of the body, centering on a Gothick-style cypher of a K interlocked with E and M. Supeb condition, approximately 3-1/2 inches tall by 4-1/2 inches wide at the handle. Circa 1875.

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