The blade features a restrained and well executed bit of engraving (please see third enlargement) with brite-cut foliage and shaded flowers.
Please see third enlargement for mark. The craftsman is Charles W. Brown
You'd be hard pressed to find better examples than these.
With the added cachet (we were going to say "snob appeal", but then remembered that our faithful readers, all two of them who remain, aren't snooty) of a Cartier retailer's mark.
Bought new, it costs just about as much as a small Mercedes, but here what a deal!!
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Compare @ 299.00 with those folks who Replace your stuff.
By the way, dear reader, our late lamented S 7000 has finally died a peaceful death and we're using a rather primitive point and shoot until the new camera arrives, so please bear with our reduced quality images.
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Designed by the great French scultor Antoine Heller, these figures have attitude!!
Readers of our little web page know that we're obsessed with comparison shopping, but we were slightly shocked to find just one lone Chrysanthemum teaspoon (item 123611846786) had recently sold on the big bad auction site for 49 American moneys. Holy guacamole!
Those of you with long memories will remember when Martha Stewart featured some of our "finds" in her article (Glints of Genius, pp 154-9, November 2008) about collecting bright cut silver. This item is of a higher quality than anything which is pictured there...
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I do not recall ever having seen a finer pair of master salt spoons.
Though there is a slight condition issue (minor dent just above base; see fourth photo), the quality of repousée chasing throughout this piece is exceptional. All detail is perfectly preserved, even the delicate hammer marks left by the silversmith's tools.
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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!
A fine old example of this scarce cast pattern, in which every piece is a little sculptural ode to past artists.
A set of these same spoons graces the cover of Elenita Chickering's superb monograph about her Uncle, Mr. Stone.
This unusual combination of etched and applied decoration lends the piece a three-dimensional quality which is quite successful, artistically.
The attractively engraved shield in bowl lends this an elegance which will uplift your entire martini routine.
A nearly identical though slightly smaller example is pictured in Chickering, p. 157; plate 160.