American Coin and Sterling Silver Colonial through Art Nouveau
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All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1920 item #1487543 (stock #5524f)
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$45.00
An original, early production, piece, this regular length, 6 3/8" long, .64 T. oz. olive spoon in the Fairfax pattern is marked with Durgin's "D" emblem, "Sterling," "Pat'd," and "A. Stowell & Co.," a once prominent Boston jeweler.

Introduced in 1910 by Durgin, this colonial revival design proved immensely popular and was continued in production by Gorham after it absorbed Durgin in the early decades of the 20th century...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1910 item #1487489 (stock #5522f)
Old Friends
$80.00
Reed & Barton held a commanding position within the realm of Art Nouveau silver producers at the turn of the 20th century, with designs such as Love Disarmed an unexcelled figural offering and Les Six Fleurs a benchmark among florals.

La Parisenne, the pattern on this 6 3/4" long, weighty at 2.12 T. oz., gravy is another expressive Reed & Barton design from this period...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1487441 (stock #5520f)
Old Friends
$85.00
An early production piece, this 7 3/8" long, 1.74 T. oz., solid silver tomato server in Strasbourg is marked with Gorham's "lion, anchor, G" emblem, "Sterling," and "Pat. 1897."

Further evidence of its age is found in the fact that the heel of the blade has raised shoulders with decorated edges. Later examples in this line have plain shoulders.

The blade also has extensive piercing, thirty-three individual cuts on a quick count...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1487335 (stock #5517f)
Old Friends
$55.00
This 8 1/4" long, 1.35 T. oz., solid silver serving fork has two potential uses.

Slender and long, with a three tine serving end, the dimensions and overall form suggest a lettuce fork.

The tine configuration, however, points to a beef fork, and this could be a long-handled version of that piece.

Whatever the precise function, it is an exceptionally well-crafted item.

Philadelphia in origin, it is marked "W. Faber & Sons" along with "Sterling," and dates circa 1880...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1487165 (stock #5512f)
Old Friends
$100.00
Price for the set of six.
The spoon represented in the above image is one of a set of six matched pieces that measure 4 5/16" long each and weigh 2.6 T. oz. the group.

They present with something of a mystery.

Coffee spoons, the pattern matches Whiting's Renaissance Revival Arabesque pattern in every detail, save the backside of the bowls are stamped "800," which represents a German silver standard used prior to 1886 (Arabesque was issued in 1875)...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1487132 (stock #5511f)
Old Friends
$145.00

A large item, this all silver ice cream knife or slice measures 10 1/4" long and weighs 4.3 T. oz.

It has a hollow (not filled) handle and a 6 1/8" by 2 1/4", roughly rectangular, solid silver, flat blade with a gold finish front and back sides.

This form is sometimes referred to as an ice cream axe or hatchet, referencing the dramatically impressive scale of the blade...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1487070 (stock #5509f)
Old Friends
$65.00
A prominent Syracuse, New York silver manufacturer with a history that spanned the second half of the 19th century and lasted until early into the 20th century, Joseph Seymour produced a number of flatware patterns in coin and sterling silver.

The Square Handled Engraved pattern on this 7 5/8" long, 1.2 T. oz., jelly knife in sterling is one that does not have a lot of design parallels, either with Seymour or other producers...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1487024 (stock #5508f)
Old Friends
$135.00
An expressive, highly detailed and high relief, design with a sculptural quality, Durgin's rarely found 1888 Heraldic incorporates imagery befitting its appellation.

The iconography includes a pair of upraised (presumably eagle) wings that appear to rise out of a crown, which itself sits over a lion rampant on a shield. Lastly, there is a rearing steed projecting out of a castle turret set below the above images...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1486943 (stock #5506f)
Old Friends
$65.00
A generally heavy line of flatware, this 7 1/8" long dessert, aka oval soup or place, spoon in Durgin's Chrysanthemum is especially so. It weighs a full 2.0 T. oz.

In immaculate condition, appearing never to have been used, it was a presentation piece, engraved "Kathryn" in embellished script lettering on the handle front and "1905" on the reverse...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1910 item #1486833 (stock #5503f)
Old Friends
$145.00
An early production piece, this Lily gravy ladle is marked with Whiting's "lion" emblem, "Sterling," an Old English "O," "Pat. 1902" and "R'd 1902," all in fine lettering on the handle back.

An expressive Art Nouveau design, the pattern is expressed in intricate, high relief detail on this large scale, 7 1/4" long with a 2 1/2" by 2 1/4" bowl, very heavy, 3.37 T. oz., solid silver piece.

The bowl is shell form, with a scalloped edge and ribbed body that is finished with a satin matt...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1486655 (stock #5499f)
Old Friends
$195.00
Price for the pair.
While this matched pair of large pieces, namely a 9" long, 2.73 T. oz. fork, and a 9 1/8" long, 2.67 T. oz., spoon, form a salad serving set, they could easily be adapted individually for any number of purposes.

The spoon for example would work as a casserole, rice, or fruit server, and the fork would work as a vegetable or entree server.

Made by Reed & Barton, whose "eagle, R, bird" emblem, "Sterling," and "Pat. Jan 6 1893" are stamped on the handle backs in fine lettering (see enlargemen...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1486529 (stock #5496f)
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A pattern with a history rooted in the Aesthetic movement, Tiffany's original Japanese (to be distinguished from later produced and renamed Audubon) was the first of numerous American flatware patterns to be issued in a multi-motif bird motif, as indicated by William Hood writing in Tiffany Silver Flatware.

Drawing upon research provided by Gorham scholar Sam Hough, Hood further notes, "In this same period [1869] Tiffany and Gorham started to conceive of producing ...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1486275 (stock #5490f)
Old Friends
$70.00
Outstanding among the various Medallion patterns produced during the 1860s, Gorham's version was the one chosen by Tiffany & Co. to offer under its retail banner.

This factor may explain the reason why it was more often than not made to a sterling silver standard, which Tiffany required, versus the typical coin of the period.

This 5 7/8" long, .8 T. oz., sugar spoon mirrors this practice. It is marked with a "lion, anchor, G" emblem, "Pat. 1864," "Gorham & Co.," and "Sterling" on th...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1486123 (stock #5486f)
Old Friends
$65.00
George Sharp's Ball pattern is arguably the most well known of any number of 1860s designs that incorporated a sphere, cube, orb, or other similar form, usually surmounting a tubular or faceted shank.

It was produced in a wide variety of pieces, from large servers to items as small as a master salt spoon or this, a 5" long, .3 T. oz., nut pick.

It is an early piece, marked "Patent 1863 Pending" and "Bailey & Co.," for the Philadelphia retailer with whom Sharp was closely asso...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1486084 (stock #5485f)
Old Friends
$46.00
A firm with a long chronology in Albany, New York, the origins of Hall, Hewson & Brower traced to 1810, with the last configuration of the firm ending in 1898.

The company operated under several names in the above span of years, two of which, the three part "HH & B with an eagle" emblem of Hall, Hewson & Brower, and "S.D. Brower & Son," are present on this 8 1/2" long, 1.35 T. oz., serving spoon.

It is also marked "Sterling 925," which would be unexpected in the circa 1850 period of this w...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1900 item #1486055 (stock #5484f)
Old Friends
$90.00
Gorham's numbered series were specially designed and produced items made to a higher standard than typical line pieces.

This late 19th century example of such work is No. 412, which is a 5" long, weighty at 1.5 T. oz., bon bon spoon.

The handle is cast, which technique enables a level of detail not achievable in a typical die struck item. Casting also produces a unique finish, which in this instance is softly grained.

The pattern on 412 incorporates flowers and acanthus le...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1920 item #1485978 (stock #5482f)
Old Friends
$165.00
Robust, this pair of ice tongs measure 7 1/8" long and weigh a substantial 2.9 T. oz.

Well suited to their function, they have a cupped and pierced shell grip at the end of one arm, and a highly articulated claw or talon grip on the flanking arm.

The pattern is Gorham's Buckingham which bears a strong resemblance to the company's companion and immensely successful Chantilly line that was introduced fifteen years earlier.

It could be argued the two patterns are variants of ...

All Items : Silver : Sterling : Flatware : Pre 1910 item #1485905 (stock #5480f)
Old Friends
$75.00
Alvin's Raphael is one of the most impressive of the myriad early 20th century Art Nouveau figural flatware designs offered by American manufacturers near the turn of the 20th century.

A multi-motif pattern, it features a full-sized woman in various poses, differing from piece to piece, along with floral detailing that also varies from piece to piece.

The flower on the handle of this 6" long, just over 1.0 T. oz. (32 grams), teaspoon is an orchid or iris and it repeats...

 
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