It features a lined handle with a fan, i.e. palmette, end. This in turn is framed by two acanthus leaves at the point where the handle turns tubular.
This example is 5 7/8" long, relatively substantial weight 1.0 T...
$35.00
The portraiture includes a turtle, along with oyster shells and seaweed on the handle, and the North Point battle monument in the gold washed bowl...
$115.00
This example, a 7 1/4" long, 1.54 T. oz. preserve or jelly spoon portrays a matronly looking woman in festooned garb. She is carrying a tray laden with fruit with a basket or other container hanging below this.
Additional details include a gargoyle, a pair of doves with raised wings, and leafy tracery...
$425.00
It is marked on the underside with the "hammer over Stone" emblem of Arthur Stone, "Sterling," and "G" for benchman Herman Glendenning, who was with Stone from 1920 to 1936.
Glendenning seems to have been a major presence in the Stone studio. He is referenced numerous times in Elenita Chickering's foundational volume Arthur J...
$60.00
The handle has straight, tapered sides with a curved end with angular shoulders.
The surface is diamond cut engraved in a brilliant Aesthetic design with an open area at the end that has a satin matte finished surface...
$34.00
Decidedly distinct from a standard Tipt design, it incorporates period Greek and/or Egyptian Revival motifs such as palmettes, reeds, and beading, set on a broad, pointed end, handle with a tubular shank.
This example is a 5 5/8" long, .7 T. oz., early pastry or pickle fork...
$325.00
Heller was a classicist much of whose work reflects the Beaux Arts style. This mode is very much evident in Coligni which is a multi-motif line that incorporates draped, romantic figures arrayed amid opulent background imagery.
This example is a very large, 9 5/8" long, 4.6 T...
$85.00
W.J. Behan is an elusive name to document, at least as relates to silver.
It is most associated with William J. Behan, who was mayor of New Orleans from 1882 to 1884, but there is no record that he was ever involved in the silver retail trade...
$45.00
This is attached to an ovoid bowl with a curved device.
Such replica pieces were inspired by items found in what is identified as the Traprain Hoard of ancient artifacts unearthed in East Lothian, Scotland.
In a description o...
These eight pieces are from an original, old, set of 5 1/8" long, 4.56 T. oz. the group, 5 o'clock spoons marked with R&B's "eagle, R, lion" emblem and "Sterling."
The bowls all have the same soft satin very pale gold surface and are engraved with "HVR" monograms in flowing script lettering.
Cast rather than die struc...
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Straightforward in design, it has a (Fiddle) Tipt handle set at a right angle to a scalloped edge, pointed end, blade.
Architectural in manner and ruggedly plain, it has flat surfaces throughout. The handle tapers to a square, solid, block where it joins the blade (this strengthens the piece at this natural stress point).
The piece is without adornment, although its clean, serviceable, character and balanced prop...
$36.00
It is marked J.C. Kelley, along with "Sterling," for the Philadelphia jeweler in business 1849-77.
The pattern is an engraved leaf and grass design presented in an Aesthetic manner on a convex Antique Tipt handle with a mid point crossed ribbon.
This is one of two similar designs produced by James Watts, also Philadelphia, and Kelley and Watts are paired on other jointly...
$46.00
This example, a 6 3/16" long, .96 T. oz., serving spoon, is marked for Phildadelphia's Peter Krider and follows standard conventions for the pattern.
Catherine Hollan in Philadelphia Silver illustrates this specific design within her section on handle patterns save she identif...
$38.00
With family roots in Gardner, Massachusetts, George originally worked with Arthur Stone. Porter went on to establish one of the most well-known silver workshops in California, where the family also founded the California Society of Arts & Crafts.
The "B09 in an oval" that appears on this 6 3/16" long, .87 T. oz., teaspoon was an early mark of the partnership,...
$65.00
This example, a tea caddy spoon with a likely late 19th century date, is stamped with the number 406 on the reverse, along with Gorham's "lion, anchor, G" emblem and the word "Sterling."
It measures 3 5/8" long and weighs just over .5 T. oz.
Comprising slightly more than half the length of the piece, i.e. 2", the handle is shaped somethi...
Made by Gorham, whose "lion, anchor, G" emblem and the word "Sterling" are imprinted on the reverses, they are 4 7/8" long, and relatively very heavy at 4.37 the group.
Finished in a satin matte gold on all surfaces, they have blue (it may read black in the above composites, but it is a deep blue), yellow, and white enameled handles, executed in an Arabesque with rosettes design.
They...
$95.00
This pair of 5 7/8" long, 1.09 T. oz., tongs is stamped "PB/WB" for Peter and William Bateman, members of the legendary family that also included matriarch Hester and Ann.
Other marks include a "lion passant" for sterling, a date letter for 1806-7, and a "bust" duty mark.
It has scalloped edge arms with bowl form grips. The arms are bright cut engraved in a leaf and floral design with wriggle work detailing.
The arch is broad and inscribed with an elaborated, feathered letter ...