$30.00
The Fiddle Tipt pattern of this places it toward the latter end of those years.
A finely crafted piece, it has a shell bowl with notched and scalloped edges...
$55.00
This is an unusually proportioned piece. It measures 7" long, with a handle that is lengthy in comparison to the 2" by 1 1/2" by 1/2" deep oval bowl. It weighs 1.1 T. oz...
$135.00
$35.00
A jelly or large sugar spoon, it has an engagingly naive quality about it.
The handle has a narrow stem, and flat, shaped, round, upturned end with a slight knob tip. The surface is engraved in a simple, but endearing, leaf and flower design. The flower appears to be a narcissus...
$75.00
The same surname, however, appears in the history of 18th and 19th century silversmithing in New Haven, Connecticut.
This minor dynasty included Miles Gorham, his son by the same name, and his nephew John, whose "J. Gorham" mark is imprinted on this lengthy, 8 7/8", 1.5 T. oz. coin silver spoon...
$65.00
This pair of 5 3/4" long, .9 T. oz., coin silver tongs are marked "W.P. & H. Perry" for that partnership.
Their plain, angular, fiddle shaped arms date them from early in the partnership, c. 1830...
$48.00
This motif appears in the top center of the handle, and is repeated on the lower front and backside heel of the join with the blade of this 6 3/4" long, 1.0 T. oz., master butter knife.
There is a script letter "R" monogram on the handle front...
$80.00
$145.00
Other marks include "coin" for the silver standard, and very small cartouche with the letters "ET," for which there is not an immediate explanation.
The form is very much of its period and place. The handle has a twi...
$285.00
This example is marked only "Patent 1861" and with Gorham's "lion, anchor, G" emblem absent a sterling designation, thus indicating it is coin.
It is also the largest iteration of a ladle in this line and is for soup. In keeping with mid 19th century practice for this sort of item, it measures a massive 14" long and weighs 6.1...
$65.00
Each arm is stamped "F. [for Foster] Tinkham," born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, in 1803, and documented working in New York City in 1840, the approximate date of this piece, as a jeweler and watchmaker. He had returned to Massachusetts by 1855.
The arms are Fiddle shaped, which is a style consistent with their period.
The grips are shell form, and the arch is engraved in a very elegant fea...
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Sugar tongs, they measure 5" long, and at 1.7 T. oz., are exceptionally heavy for their size.
Stamped "S. Kirk & Son" and "10.15" for the peculiar-to-Baltimore silver standard that is essentially equivalent to coin, each arm is chased in a high relief flower and leaf design that is akin to Kirk's holloware of the period, as illustrated, for example, in Maryland Silver published b...
$235.00
It is stamped on the handle backside, "Vanderslice & Co. S.F. Cal." for the firm established in 1858 which, as recounted in Silver in the Golden State, became "the longest lived of the nineteenth-century San Francisco manufacturing firms," suggesting that this piece, unlike much California silver of the period, was regionally produced.
The handle is a Frenc...
$36.00
Lacking a certain attribution, Catherine Hollan in her Philadelphia Silversmiths writes, "The firm is unidentified, probably from New Hampshire or New England where "DOLLAR[S]" is used [although this term, designating a coin silver standard, is not exclusive to New England]."
She further notes, however, that Yale University Art Gallery has spoons [with...
$115.00
This exa...
$225.00
An Olive pattern, which was particularly popular in Boston in the period and produced with slight variation by several makers, it is marked "lion, F&H, bust," for manufacturer "Farrington & Hunnewell."
It is a hotcake, aka pancake or waffle, lifter.
Characteristic of the form, it has a 2 5/8" diameter, essentially round in this instance, flat server wi...
$36.00
The two men established a partnership, which through a series of transitions eventually became Lunt Silversmiths, thus there is a long silversmithing lineage represented in this 6 3/16" long, .5 T. oz., sugar, or possibly small jelly, spoon marked "W. P. Jones" and "Coin."
It dates 1847-57, the period when Jones...
$46.00
It is a mid 19th century, coin silver, piece in a French Thread aka Fiddle Thread pattern.
The 2 1/4" bowl is shell form with a scalloped and notched edge and high, rounded, shoulders at the join with the handle.
Never monogrammed, it is in excellent condition, absent polishing wear, free of dents, bends, or tears in the bowl, and with a pleasing patina. There are light surface scratches consistent wit...