Gebelein
4387   $30

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Circa 1830's. Downturned fiddle, rounded fins. Length 6". The monogram is a lengthwise script R.Ostrander. Overall and mark condition are excellent.

Gebelein
4386   $25

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Circa 1820-25. Downturned fiddle, rounded fins. Length 6". The monogram is a lengthwise script J H (the J is possibly an I). Overall and mark condition are excellent.

Gebelein
4384   $75 for 5

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Downturned fiddle handles, rounded fins. Length 5-3/4". The monogram is a lengthwise script SAC (not sure of the C). Overall condition is excellent (slight roughness at end of handles). Mark condition ranges from excellent to fair.

Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
1365   $275.00 the eleven

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with a rather scarce mark which incorporates the trademark and the numeral 9 (see third photo); no monogram; excellent condition; length 4 inches.

North Hill Antiques
347   $25

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Elongated fiddle handle, no shoulders, feathered script mono L B on front; 5-1/2" long. Bit of tipwear, but overall an interesting early piece.

Gebelein
A113   $95

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Fiddle, sharp fins, broad elliptical grips. Length 6-1/4". The monogram at the bow is a script CN. Marked inside each arm. Yale attributes this mark to David Hempstead of New London, CT. See Silver magazine, March/April 1990 for discussion of mark. Overall and mark condition are excellent.

Gebelein
1372   $275

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Bright cut, small elliptical grips. Marked inside each arm, including an eagle that is probably a journeyman's mark. Length 6-3/8". The monogram at the bow is a script SC. Overall and mark condition are excellent.

Gebelein
971   $295 for 6

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Downturned handles. Length 5-5/8". The monogram is a script PC. Overall condition is near mint. An unusual, stylish form of coffin end spoons.

Gebelein
918F   $20

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Marked I.T. in a rectangle, uncrowned leopard's head, and a P (see McGrew, page 119). Length 5-7/8". The monogram is a lengthwise script CS (superimposed). Overall and mark condition are excellent (minor dents in bowl).

Gebelein
918E   $30

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Downturned fiddle, drop, tipt on back. Length 5-7/8". The monogram is a lengthwise script DLMS(?). Overall and mark condition are excellent.

Gebelein
512E   $25

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Downturned fiddle, no fins, drop, tipt on back. Length 6". The monogram is a lengthwise script SM (nice engraving). Overall condition is excellent (near mint). Mark condition is very good (C Davison in a rectangle, and an eagle looking right in a horizontal ellipse - see McGrew page 88).

Gebelein
473   $25

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Upturned handle, fiddle, tipt on top, rounded fins. Marked PREMIUM/ SIGOURNEY&HITCHCOCK /PURE COIN. Length 5-13/16". Overall and mark condition are excellent (near mint).

Gebelein
188   $15

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Rounded fins. Retailed by George Swortfiguer of Schenectady, NY. Length 5-1/2". The monogram is a lengthwise script EW. Overall condition is excellent (minor dents in bowl). Mark condition is very good.

Gebelein
187   $25

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No fins. The mark is HUTTTON in a rectangle (not sure whether this is a rare typo mark or whether it is doublestruck). Length 5-5/8". The monogram is a lengthwise script JMP. Overall and mark condition are excellent (other than the mark anomaly mentioned above).

Gebelein
4305   $30

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Downturned handle, fiddle, rounded fins. Length 8-5/8". The monogram is a lengthwise script LAP. Mark condition of the name is excellent; mark condition of "Providence" is poor. Overall condition of the spoon is excellent except for a small tear at the base of the bowl. Notes: (1)this mark of J.GORHAM&SON, all in caps, is not illustrated in Carpenter, Belden, or Flynt & Fales (2) this is really a pair, but the second spoon has two small tears in the bowl and the bowl needs regulating. The price ... Click for details

North Hill Antiques
664   $475

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Benjamin Mead is cited as an Annapolis silversmith (and storekeeper, etc) by Whisker et al in "Maryland Clockmakers" and allied craftsmen. Quoted are excerpts from the Maryland Gazette of 9/11/1819, 11/11/19 and 1/11/21, which depict Mead's work. This spoon appears to be a modified coffin-end -- that is, the handle end is sliced lengthwise rather than clipped (see pic). It has square shoulders, is 8-5/8" long, and the mono is E M. Overall condition is excellent. (NOTE: Flynt & Fales, in the... Click for details

North Hill Antiques
663   $200

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Teaspoon with oval-end fiddle handle, flared shoulders, feathered script mono E B on front; 5-3/8" long, excellent condition. Peabody worked first in Fayetteville, NC, beginning in 1823, and by 1836, according to B. Caldwell's "Silversmiths in Tennessee," he was working in Nashville. The shape of Peabody's fiddle is interesting -- perhaps not unique, but well formed, and an interesting shape to hold and contemplate.

North Hill Antiques
132   $2750

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Rattail on bowl back, shaded block mono R over T * M on reverse; 7-3/8" long. Condition is quite good -- a touch of tipwear and a slight dent at the tip of the dognose, but all else is fine. Russell moved to Newport sometime after serving his apprenticeship with John Dixwell in Boston (see Kane for a discussion of Russell's life).

North Hill Antiques
350   Pair $30

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Made by James Munroe, c1835 -- downturned fiddle handles, flared shoulders, script mono B M on front; 5-1/2" long. Bowls have a few shallow teething marks and one mark is badly struck - otherwise, condition is fine.

Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
1346   $475.00

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the blade well engraved with three frolicking fishes, knife 11 7/8, fork 9 3/8 inches, fine condition, monogrammed "Lockwood" (obverse, see third photo), weight 8.2 Troy ounces and not too bad a price either we might add... Is my high school English teacher rolling over in her grave? No, she's not dead yet!!