HELMET-SHAPED SILVER CREAM JUG, GEORGE II SHAPED CIRCULAR SALVERS, SILVER TABLE CANDLESTICK, GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT CIRCULAR SEAL, SILVER CYLINDRICAL BEAKER
A HELMET-SHAPED SILVER CREAM JUG, applied with а
reeded girdle and chased with scrolls, florai
clusters, a beast and a mask, also incorporating а
crested cartouche, double scroll handle, on three
shell headed hoof feet, 4 high, marks rubbed,
Dublin, circa [...]

BACHELORS OVAL TEAPOT, LARGE CYLINDRICAL TANKARD, TABLE SILVER CANDLESTICKS, CIRCULAR SILVER SALVER, SILVER CRUET
AN OBLONG SNUFFERS TRAY, engraved with а crest, motto and initials, gadroon, shell and foliate border, 9in. , circa 1810.
A BACHELORS OVAL TEAPOT and matching Stand, the pot moulded with a horizontal rib bright-cut with trailing foliage above a crested roundel, straight [...]

ANTIQUE SILVER TANKARDS AND MUGS
Up to the end of the seventeenth century covered tankards and porringers are, I suppose, the two most commonly found pieces of silver. The increasing sophistication of the eighteenth century introduced an ever wider range of table silver together with ali the apparatus for the recently introduced tea, coffee and chocolate. [...]

SILVER INKSTANDS
The main point about antique sterling silver inkstands is that everything must be marked. The main tray fully, and the separate pieces with the lion passant and possibly silver maker’s mark. Sometimes one can get away with the tops of the bottles not being marked, providing the sockets for the bottles are on inkstands [...]

SILVER BEER AND WINE JUGS AND EWERS
Beer and wine jugs are among the most popular and valuable of silver articles, and the earlier ones are of considerable rarity. Early covers may be fully marked, but all covers, if genuine, must bear the maker’s mark and lion passant or leopard’s head erased. Check for thin [...]