Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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All Items : Silver : Sterling : Hollowware : Pre 2000 item #1362724 (stock #2261)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$250.00
circa 1870, height of cup 3; diameter 3 5/8 inches, weight 8.07 Troy ounces, some minor insults above the applied round foot where Alice perhaps in need of more tea rapped her vessel upon the table (please see third photo) but very good overall condition.

Years ago, many folks had high enthusiasm over silver from the Golden State, but now we're going to find out the hard way whether or not anyone indeed still gives a rat's derrière.

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1361932 (stock #2257)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
SOLD
length inches, weight 2.17 Troy ounces, monogrammed "G" (?) in elaborate shaded script, obverse, and "1824 / 1874" reverse, reticulated gilt bowl engraved with ivy leaves, immaculate original condition.

We have never encountered a spoon with this boat-shaped flat bottom bowl in the past, and have conferred with a Very Knowledgeable Fellow who has owned one (yes, just one) before and is of the opinion that this is indeed a berry spoon.

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1361886 (stock #2256)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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length 10 1/8 inches, weight 3.34 Troy ounces, ornate four letter script monogram on reverse, excellent condition.

The blade features a restrained and well executed bit of engraving (please see third enlargement) with brite-cut foliage and shaded flowers.

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1361875 (stock #2255)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$175.00
or jelly cake knife, if you'd prefer, length 9 1/8 inches, weight 1.84 oz. Troy, excellent condition save for a long shallow scratch on reverse of blade (please see second enlargement), monogrammed in script on reverse.

The obverse features a refined bit of engraving, done by a skilled and steady hand.

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1361191 (stock #2254)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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length 6 5/8 inches, plated steel blades, very minor pinpricks at ends which we've exaggerated in enlargement number four but fine overall condition, monogrammed "C."

As collectors will know, if any of them remain above ground, knives in this elegant old Durgin pattern are scarce.

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1360968 (stock #2251)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$25.00
length 5 7/8 inches, monogrammed as shown, very light pattern wear but fine overall condition, weight 1.38 Troy ounces, and as we say here in Boston, "it's a baaahgin."

Compare our price with the folks who Replace your stuff @70.00

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1360756 (stock #2250)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$225.00
length 5 1/4 inches, weight 1.0 oz Troy, excellent condition, no monogram.

This piece is not commonly found.

All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Flatware : Early Patterns : Pre 2000 item #1360719 (stock #2249)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$250.00
length 10 3/4 inches, weight 4.02 Troy ounces, excellent condition, monogrammed as shown in enlargement number three.

Over the years, we've bought and sold many King and King's variant items in coin silver, but this is a particularly fine example in terms of form, quality, and condition.

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1360694 (stock #2248)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
SOLD
retailed by Hardy & Hayes, length 7 3/8 inches, weight 15 Troy ounces, monogrammed "C", fine condition.

If pressed as to why you, dear reader, should buy these Iris fish forks as opposed to some others listed elsewhere on the interwebz, I'd have to say that ours are probably in better condition. If pressed even harder, I'd confess that these are also attractively priced.

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Smalls : Pre 2000 item #1358830 (stock #2245)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
SOLD
London, 1993. Contemporary and of the finest quality, height three inches, weight an astonishing 10 Troy ounces the pair, one minor abrasion as shown but excellent overall condition. A perfect gift to grace the table of your equine aquaintances.

For those who favor comparison shopping, a similar though inferior pair by this same maker weighing only 5.7 oz. Troy sold at Julien's for 875.00 (See catalogue of the Ronnie & Jo Wood collection, 10/26/2012, lot 308).

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Hollowware : Pre 2000 item #1357194 (stock #2242)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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height 5 1/2; length across handle 6 1/4 inches, weight 14.1 Troy ounces, the body richly chased with rose flowers, foliage and a band of acanthus leaves below, the realistically formed wrythen grapevine handle fastened together with silver tacks (see second enlargement), engraved "Minnie / June 2nd / 1875" in cartouche under spout, capacity one quart, fine condition.

If only we knew a bit more about Minnie, a good tale might be told, but alas we know nothing of this lass.

All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Flatware : Early Patterns : Pre 2000 item #1353273 (stock #2238)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
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length 7 5/8 inches, weight 1.84 Troy ounces, monogrammed as shown in second enlargement, gilt bowl, outstanding original condition. Concerning the engraving, both the quality of design and the execution are far above average.

Marked only "coin," back in the day we would have hastened to read through many musty issues of "Silver Magazine" in order to find the maker of this fine ladle, but now, in our dotage, we will leave this task to you, dear reader.

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.

Why? Because Gorham made a bit of a bargain with the devil, and used .950 or .9584 silver to make...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 2000 item #1349364 (stock #2234)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
SOLD
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 : 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 : Jewelry : Fine : Pre 2000 item #1341624 (stock #2229)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
$225.00
length 8 1/4 inches, weight 2.26 Troy ounces or 70.5 grams if you like to think that way, excellent condition, unmarked. We bought this out of a suite and the other pieces had the "PBD sterling 14k" mark, but they weren't terribly attractive...

Brams was a noted jewelry designer; also a prominent collector of folk and ethnographic art. He is now retired and living in New York.

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 : Pre 2000 item #1338940 (stock #2220)
Bruce Cherner Antique Silver
sold
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.
 
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