Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1219048 (stock #2184)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$40.00
length 5 1/8 inches, weight .47 oz. Troy, monogrammed "M.F.W.", fine condition with traces of original gilding on bowl and along handle.

One of these days, a more scholarly colleague will reveal the true name of this pattern...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Hollowware : Pre 2000 item #1220066 (stock #2185)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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height 3 1/8; top diameter 5 inches, weight 6.14 Troy ounces, no monogram, excellent condition.

Similar in design and construction to its larger cousin known as the "Louvre Bowl," (see Drucker, p. 188) because it is in the permanent collection of that institution.

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1221326 (stock #2186)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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Length 5 7/8 inches, weight 1.18 Troy ounces, excellent condition, monogrammed "B" (obverse, Old English).

One of Frank Smith's better designs, and one of Yours Truly's favorite patterns...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1238134 (stock #2193)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$40.00
length 7 3/4 inches, three letter script monogram (reverse) as shown in enlargement number five, exceptionally fine condition, weight 1.36 oz. Troy, the blade well engraved with trailing bellflower decoration.
All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1247426 (stock #2197)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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length 8 1/4 inches, weight 4.85 Troy ounces, design detail in fine condition, bowl retains more than half of its original gilding, monogrammed as shown. Retailed by Boston's own late lamented Bigelow Kennard & Company, a fine, elegant store which many of my customers are old enough to remember with affection...
All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1271680 (stock #2202)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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length 12 7/8 inches, weight 4.11 Troy ounces, no monogram, excellent condition.

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!!

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Smalls : Pre 2000 item #1273893 (stock #2203)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$350.00
a rare, diminutive example, 3 1/8 X 1 7/8 X just under 1/2 inches, weight 2.3 Troy ounces.

It is an unusual pleasure to find an object which is engraved ("J. Diprose, EsqR / from J.J.G. Bombay") with both a name and a location, to lend it an added sense of history.

This item is superb in both design and execution. Though we always hesitate to say "flawless condition," one would be hard-pressed to find fault...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Smalls : Pre 2000 item #1276942 (stock #2204)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$450.00
London 1778, height 4 3/4; diameter 3 1/4 inches, weight 3.67 Troy ounces, a few very minor dents which won't show up in photos but fine overall condition (there's a bit of distress to the tip-- see fourth photo-- greatly enlarged here), monogrammed as shown.

The perfect gift for your wine loving friend, who will appreciate that the muslin ring remains present, when the time comes to decant that special bottle of port...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Hollowware : Pre 2000 item #1289787 (stock #2206)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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height 11; bottom diameter five, length across handle to spout 9 inches, weight 47.5 Troy ounces, retailed by Theodore Starr (maker's mark effaced) and monogrammed as shown. We always hesitate to say that an item is in "perfect" condition, but I am hard pressed to find fault with this one...
All Items : Silver : Sterling : Smalls : Pre 2000 item #1293504 (stock #2209)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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height 1 7/8; top diameter 2 inches, no monogram, weight 2.6 Troy ounces, excellent condition, marked as shown. Just the right size to hold a healthy belt of scotch...

This piece bears the craftsman's mark of both Robert Bean and Fletcher Carter. Also, let's give a shout out to the good folks at ONC, still going strong in Amesbury after one hundred years, who were kind enough to identify this cup as the "Roly Poly cordial."

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Smalls : Pre 2000 item #1294250 (stock #2212)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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with riotous chrysanthemum decoration, height 1 1/2; diameter 1 3/4 inches, weight 1.34 Troy ounces, model number 1351, date letter "n" (1881), superb condition, monogrammed "Hattie."
All Items : Silver : Sterling : Hollowware : Pre 2000 item #1332434 (stock #2217)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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awarded to the Schooner Marguerite, the undulating rim comprising twelve cast and applied foliate scrolled panels, the cast circular foot with waves, flowers and foliage, top diameter 11 1/2; base and height each six inches, weight 53.74 Troy ounces, a few very minor dents but excellent overall condition, richly gilt interior, engraved "Annual Regatta / on the 25th Anniversary of the / Eastern Yacht Club / July 17th 1895 / First Prize / Won by / Schooner Marguerite"

Marguerite was design...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1332597 (stock #2218)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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length 7 5/8 inches, weight 1.37 Troy ounces (each), monogrammed as shown, fine condition, scarce.
All Items : Silver : Sterling : Pre 2000 item #1338940 (stock #2220)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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Ball Black & Company circa 1875, with satyr's head handle, stepped oval foot, finely engraved crest and body (please see third image), height 3 5/8 inches, weight 4.74 Troy ounces, some staining to interior as shown but excellent overall condition, no monogram in opposing cartouche.
All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1341232 (stock #2226)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$375.00
length 10 3/8 inches, weight 3.48 Troy ounces, no monogram, excellent condition.

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...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Smalls : Pre 2000 item #1345511 (stock #2232)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$150.00
height 2 1/2; length 2 7/8 inches, weight 1.73 Troy ounces, fine condition, no monogram, marked as shown.
All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1349364 (stock #2234)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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length 3 3/4 inches, weight .77 oz. Troy, no monogram, fine condition.

May I offer our apologies, dear reader, for having previously catalogued these as "Acorn"? Old age is taking its toll, here.

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Hollowware : Pre 2000 item #1351769 (stock #2235)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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Let's take a moment to reflect upon why a dealer, or at least Yours Truly, chooses to add an item to inventory.

Over the years, I've examined many pieces of Martelé, and if you dear reader will forgive me for a bit of crudeness, most of them are "trashed." Specifically, the detail is severely worn away, leaving the beauty of the overall design still appreciable but no longer intact...

 
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