William Adams Walker Stewart (1876 - 1960) graduated from Princeton with the class of 1897 and practiced law in New York City. As Vice Commodore of the N.Y.Y.C. during some hard years, he managed to find a way to increase the number of yachts competing in the schooner class ("Everyone knows how little of this expensive type of yachting has been go...
$40.00
One of these days, a more scholarly colleague will reveal the true name of this pattern...
$175.00
The obverse features a refined bit of engraving, done by a skilled and steady hand.
The blade features a restrained and well executed bit of engraving (please see third enlargement) with brite-cut foliage and shaded flowers.
$210.00
Those folks who Replace your stuff have given this pattern the prosaic name of "WHS9", but we don't believe them for a minute. Engraved patterns such as this, if they had a name, were often known by number, for example "Antique Engraved number 7." They involved hours of skilled, exacting work by craftsmen who were paid more than most of their peers. ...
$250.00
The blade features an exciting combination of bright cut, diapering and wriggle-work engraving which delights both the eye and the camera's lens. You'd be hard pressed to find a more elegant tool for the bride ...
$90.00
$375.00
As our friend Don Soeffing has recounted in "The Battle of the Birds" (Silver Magazine, November/December 1995), production of this pattern was short lived, because W & H lost this particular battle against Tiffany for infringement of their design pattern...
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Come ye citizens of Portsmouth and reclaim thy heritage!!
$150.00
$1,250.00
Those with long memories will recognize this as the same mug which sold at Charlton Hall, June 14 2009, (lot 730) for 1725.00. Please take a moment to look at those catalogue photos (see fifth enlargement), and you will notice a few dents and some surface abrasion presumably due to improper cleaning with steel wool. We ...
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Have a look at the finely engraved matte-finished bowl up close and personal in our second enlargement to see why Faber's work is sought after by so many collectors!
With faux alligator skin, and applied silver matte finish "calling card."
This was probably a custom made item.
We've examined both doggies carefully with a high power loupe, and they appear to be 14k. No, we're not going to test them...