North Hill Antiques Silver,Coin Silver,Southern Directory

North Hill Antiques

Catalogue: Silver: Coin Silver: Southern (41)

Pair teaspoons by Greenbury Gaither, Wash.,DC, c1825 Silver: Coin Silver: Southern: Pre 1837 VR stock# 675
click for details		North Hill Antiques (845) 357-4484 Ea. $75, Pair $125
Downturned fiddle handles, tiny pointed shoulders, reverse tipt, feathered script mono F C G on front; 5-3/8" long. Tiny bit of tipwear, otherwise fine.

Spoons by Elijah M. Ringo of Tennessee Silver: Coin Silver: Southern: Pre 1837 VR stock# 698
click for details		North Hill Antiques (845) 357-4484 Set of 4 $1500
Set of 4 tablespoons, c1830 - downturned fiddle handles, small square shoulders, lightly engraved feathered script mono W O on front; 8-3/8" long, heavy gauge silver. Condition is fine, with a touch of tipwear; marks lightly struck, in one case poorly struck. See "Tennessee Silver" by B.H. Caldwell for a discussion of Ringo's career in Fayetteville, Lincoln County.

Birdback teaspoon by Joseph Warner, Wilmington, Del. Silver: Coin Silver: Southern: Pre 1800 stock# 669
click for details		North Hill Antiques (845) 357-4484 $150
Made about 1790 -- oval-end handle, reverse rib, feathered script mono JLS (? - see pix); 5-1/4" long. Tipwear, salt roughness end of bowl, bird a tad worn (see pix for all). Mark excellent. This is not a "museum piece," as many are described, but an honest 200+-year-old spoon honestly used.

KY coin silver by Evans C. Beard, Louisville, c1825 Silver: Coin Silver: Southern: Pre 1837 VR stock# 668
click for details		North Hill Antiques (845) 357-4484 Ea. $100, Pair $175
Pair teaspoons -- downturned fiddle handles, high pointed shoulders, crescent drop, reverse tipt, 5-5/8" long. Mint condition, excellent mark as shown in Boultinghouse.

Set of 3 tsps with rare St. Louis mark Silver: Coin Silver: Southern: Pre 1900 stock# 680
click for details		North Hill Antiques (845) 357-4484 Ea. $50
Joseph W. Cary is cited in new book by Norman Mack--"Missouri's Silver Age." Mack says that Cary moved his jewelry store from Alton, Ill., to St. Louis ca 1870-75. These spoons have pinched-waist fiddle handles, pointed shoulders with feathered script mono E C S; length is 6-1/8", and condition is near mint, extended tips unworn.

Serving spoon by Littleton Holland, Baltimore, 1824 Silver: Coin Silver: Southern: Pre 1837 VR stock# 678
click for details		North Hill Antiques (845) 357-4484 $150
Downturned fiddle handle, drop, reverse tipt, feathered script mono M R on front; 9" in length. Condition is mint, extended bowl tip unworn. See pix for shield mark and dominical letter C.

Marrow spoon by John Mood, Charleston, c1825 Silver: Coin Silver: Southern: Pre 1837 VR stock# 671
click for details		North Hill Antiques (845) 357-4484 $4500
Short wide scoop at one end, long narrow scoop at the other, connected by a threaded mid-piece (see pix); each scoop with a pointed arch drop, an unusual touch in marrow scoops; length is 10-1/8", condition of scoop and mark is excellent. American coin silver marrow scoops are relatively rare, of course, and southern scoops even more so.

Kentucky silver -- 3 spoons by the Ramsey clan Silver: Coin Silver: Southern: Pre 1900 stock# 673
click for details		North Hill Antiques (845) 357-4484 Set of 3 $225
P. W. Ramsey worked with his brother Milton C. for 3 years -- 1855-8 -- in Louisville. These 3 spoons -- table, dessert and tea -- carry the same mono -- E. A. McB. -- but seem to have been made at different times, the tablespoon being a different style with a different hand at the engraving tool. All 3 are in near-mint condition -- the table 8-1/2" long, dessert 7-1/4" and the tea 6".

Set of 6 tsps by Wm. H. Thompson, Raleigh, NC, c1850 Silver: Coin Silver: Southern: Pre 1900 stock# 696
click for details		North Hill Antiques (845) 357-4484 Set of 6 $250
The only W. H. Thompson we can find is on p. 163, "Silversmiths of NC," by Cutten & Peacock. This is what they say: "During the latter part of December, 1849, and in January, 1850, the North Carolina Standard carried an advertisement ... (that) W. H. Thompson had opened a New Watch & Jewelry Store in Raleigh. His store was located in a part of the Store occupied by Mrs. Thompson as a Millinery establishment and featured a choice stock of WATCHES & JEWELRY ... all sor ...click for details

New Orleans tablespoons (servers) by Harland & Blair Silver: Coin Silver: Southern: Pre 1837 VR stock# 681
click for details		North Hill Antiques (845) 357-4484 Set of 6 $540
Set of 6, c1830 -- forward-tipt fiddle handles, flared shoulders, drop, feathered script mono R.L.B. on front; 8-1/4" long, 10 troy oz. Tipwear on all 6, otherwise fine. Excellent marks (see pic).

Return To Top	View Next 10 Items
PAGE: 1 2 3 4 5

member of

Collectibles and Antiques ~ Est. 1996 ©

a

company

~ enabling vibrant online markets ©2008