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All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : 18th and Early 19th Century : Pre 1800
item #1487373
(stock #5518f)
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Although primarily a New York City Silversmith, Louise Belden in Marks of American Silversmiths and other sources note that William Grigg spent some years in other locations, namely Albany 1770-78, and Halifax, Canada, 1782-89.
He was a freeman worker in 1765, dating this group of six, matched, 5 1/2" long, just over 3.0 T. oz. (95 grams) the lot, to the decades between then and Grigg's death in 1797...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : 18th and Early 19th Century : Pre 1837 VR
item #1487636
(stock #5528f)
As documented by Flynt & Fales in The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, Eleazer Wyer, born in Boston in 1786, learned goldsmithing from his father (of the same name), and his sister married silversmith Timothy Keith, so the trade was clearly a family tradition.
Eleazer relocated to Portland, Maine about 1806, and from 1814-18 was in partnership there with Charles Farley...
