Sauce label for KETCHUP made in England around 1810 and remaining in very good condition. This is Old Sheffield Plate (OSP), but the silver is in very good shape with only the very slightest blush showing on a few of the beads at the top. It is 1⅜ inches wide and about ½-inch high. A nice addition for your collection of bottle labels or tickets or just fun if you like ketchup.

Fine early tablespoon by one of the rarest Southern makers, Martin Noxon of Edenton, North Carolina. It has a pointed handle and dates from about 1805. It is in excellent condition, measuring 8 7/16 inches and weighing 1.68 troy ounces. It also has a beautifully engraved, elegant script monogram on the handle. I have also noted that the hallmark is the only one I know which reads the same upside down...

Full title is: American Silver 1655-1825 in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Boston by Kathryn C. Buhler. This two volume hardcover book was published in 1972 and came in a slipcase. The individual volumes never had dust jackets. This is an essential reference work if one is a serious collector of or dealer in early American silver. The illustration shows the front and back of the slipcase. This is a crisp new copy that has never been used.

Cherry Blossom is an Art Nouveau pattern which Blackinton introduced in 1903. This is a sugar shell or spoon from a Maine estate. It is 5 5/8 inches long. Other photographs are available and can be emailed on request.

Nice small ladle by Blackinton with pierced decoration in the bowl. Length is 5 inches. There is a single script letter lightly engraved on the handle. We have not been able to identify the pattern.

Particularly handsome pierced olive spoon in the rare Dauphin pattern by Durgin, first made in 1897. Just a tad longer than 6 inches, this piece is skillfully pierced and very well finished on front and back, a sign of the care lavished on American sterling flatware by the better manufacturers in the late 19th century. There is a delicate script monogram on the back of the handle. More photographs are available and can be emailed on request.

Silver baby food pushers are scarce,and this one is particularly so because it is in the rare Narcissus pattern by Unger Brothers. Narcissus dates from 1890. The name "Edith" is smartly engraved on the business end of the piece.

Master butter serving knife in Gorham's most popular pattern, Chantilly. Never monogrammed. Length is 6¾ inches; weight is 0.94 troy ounces. Marked on the back: GORHAM STERLING.

These came out of a Maine estate —six demitasse spoons in the desirable Art Nouveau Lily pattern by Whiting, first made in 1902. They are very crisp with a very elegant period script monogram. They are four inches long and weigh a total of 2.41 troy ounces. Detailed photographs are available and will be emailed on request.

Directly from a Maine estate, this sterling claret spoon bears the marks of the Concord Silversmiths. It is 11 inches long and is not monogrammed. it weighs 2.7 troy ounces. Condition is very good. Probable date is about 1940. More photographs are available and will be emailed on request.

Set of six teaspoons, dating from 1800-1810, by William Simes (1773-1824) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. They are coffin ended with beautifully executed script monograms and interesting double roulette drops on the back. Each is marked with Simes' punch (mark "a" on page 382 of Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection by Louise Conway Belden). Length is 5 11/16 inches. Condition is very good: I would almost be tempted to say the spoons were never used...

Interesting small catalog from sale titled "A Group of Important Georgian Silver" held on Friday, May 16, 1941, at Parke-Bernet Galleries on East 57th Street. The silver was property of Parish-Watson & Co., Inc., of New York "to be sold consequent on the death of M. Parish-Watson, Esq. The 24-page booklet is self-bound and contains listings of 31 lots and photographs of most of them. A nice period piece for collectors and dealers.