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Rare Old Sheffield Plate English Wine Funnel c. 1820
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Plate:
Pre 1837 VR item# 997597
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$275
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Antique Old Sheffield Plate (OSP) two-part wine funnel made in England, dating from about 1820. All parts of this piece show seams, which is as it should be in genuine OSP. Seymour B. Wyler in his book on Sheffield Plate wrote, "Only passing reference need be made to such isolated examples of Sheffield Plate as wine funnels, strainers and tasters. Although specimens have been unearthed, proving beyond a doubt that these were numbered among the products of the platers, only a few were made. ...click for details
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Fine Georgian Mustard Pot by John Denzilow, London 1791
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Sterling:
Hollowware:
Pre 1800 item# 935323
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$750
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Two rows of elaborate piercing highlight this superior oval sterling mustard pot with its elegant body, pierced thumbpiece and urn finial. It retains its cobalt blue liner. It is fully marked on the base (the maker's mark is upside down in the photo) and marked on the underside of the lid with a lion passant and the maker's mark, which is faint. Overall length (including handle) is 4 1/4 inches and height is 3 1/4 inches. Weight, without glass liner, is 3 troy ounces and 12 pennyweights ...click for details
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American Silver from the Kossack Collection:A Checklist
Silver:
Coin Silver:
Pre 1990 item# 800094
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$35
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Checklist for 1988 exhibit celebrating the gift to Yale by the Kossack family of American silver encompassing at the time almost 4,400 objects dating from about 1720 to 1890. It included 1,965 tea, 774 table, 207 dessert, 199 salt and 49 mustard and other small spoons; 467 sugar shells and tongs; 269 ladles; 151 pieces of holloware; 126 forks; 46 knives; 43 spectacles; 36 serving pieces, and 35 pieces of jewelry representing the work of approximately 1,100 silversmiths. Listed authors are David ...click for details
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Fine Judaica and Other Silver, Watches: Christie's Sale
Books and Publications:
Antiques:
Pre 1990 item# 790549
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$25
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Auction of Fine Judaica (196 lots), English and Continental Silver, Russian Works of Art, Watches and Objects of Vertu, held by Christie's in New York on October 25 and 26, 1982. As always, a beautiful, heavily illustrated catalog -- 605 lots in all. In very good condition, with some price notations for the last hundred or so lots. Includes prices realized list. We have another Judaica catalog, from Skinner, on Cyberattic. We would sell both for $35 including Priority Mail shipping.
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