Posts Tagged ‘antique silver’

ANTIQUE SILVER SAUCE BOAT, A GEORGE III CIRCULAR FREEDOM BOX, GEORGE III SILVER TABLE CANDLESTTCKS, A VICTORIAN SILVER WINE GOBLET, GEORGE III SILVER SHOE BUCKLES

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

ANTIQUE SILVER SAUCE BOAT, A GEORGE III CIRCULAR FREEDOM BOX, GEORGE III SILVER TABLE CANDLESTTCKS, A VICTORIAN SILVER WINE GOBLET, GEORGE III SILVER SHOE BUCKLES
An 18TH CENTURY IRISH PROVINCIAL SAUCE BOAT, plain below an applied gadroon rim, shell hoof Supports, leaf capped double scroll handle, incised on ihc underside ‘RW 1761, maker‘s mark of Samuel [...]

A George IV Silver Teapot - An Antique Silver Dessert Bowl - Table Silver - Pint Mugs

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

A George IV Silver Teapot - An Antique Silver Dessert Bowl - Table Silver - Pint Mugs
A pair of George IV Old English pattern Serving Spoons, London, 1820; and a pair of Queens pattern examples, London,
Twelve Victorian Fiddle pattern Dessert Forks, London, 1849.
A Victorian Teapot and Sugar Basin en suite, Edinburgh, 1849, panel flat-chased inverted [...]

An Antique Silver Victorian Goblet - Antique Table Candlesticks - George III Silver Salt Cellars - Italian Silver Knife and Fork

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

An Antique Silver Victorian Goblet - Antique Table Candlesticks - George III Silver Salt Cellars - Italian Silver Knife and Fork
A German Tankard, modern, barrel form, inscribed, the cover with simple thumbpiece, angularhandle, gilt interior.
A silver-gilt Spoon, Scandinavian, late 17th or early 18th Century, with leaf scroll incised bowl and hoof terminal.
A Scandinavian Beaker, 18th [...]

ANTIQUE SILVER TEA KETTLES AND URNS

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

ANTIQUE SILVER TEA KETTLES AND URNS
This type of tea kettle is fairly typical of the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Hall-marking on the neck, as this example, is rather uncommon. The marks on the body will usually be found grouped underneath, and are often rather worn with cleaning away the carbon deposited by the [...]

ANTIQUE SILVER TEA POTS AND TEASETS

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

ANTIQUE SILVER TEA POTS AND TEASETS
A lot of the remarks about coffee pots apply to teapots, as indeed they apply to most hollow-ware. Early teapots were usually very small, as tea was extremely expensive (about the present day equivalent of t50 per
pound). As people like to use their silver, a large early teapot is very [...]

ANTIQUE SILVER CANDLESTICKS

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

ANTIQUE SILVER CANDLESTICKS
Candlesticks are amongst the easiest objects for the beginner to assess it is rare that there is anything wrong with cast candlesticks though sometimes there are small cracks in the casting or along the seams where the separate parts of the casting are joined, but these are not serious faults.
Damage to the loaded [...]

Antique Silver Mirrors

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

SILVER MIRRORS
Silver mirrors date mostly from the late seventeenth century. Originally they formed part of a toilet service, but are now usually found by themselves, as the first thing most dealers used to do when they bought a complete service was to split it up to make it more easily saleable. Antique silver mirrors are, [...]

Antique Silver Epergnes

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

SILVER EPERGNES
Epergnes are not common, and can only find room on the grandest dining tables. They were not made for very long - fifty years would cover the period - and there are only a few basic types of antique epergnes. This is the earliest type, with the dishes all being flat. In this example, [...]

Antique Silver Cake Baskets

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

SILVER CAKE BASKETS
Cake baskets are one of the commoner silver articles from 1740 onwards. As they are rather decorative in the centre of a table, they have always had quite a good value, though there is a great difference between the so-called “cast” types, and the ordinary engraved ones of the late eighteenth and early [...]