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All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1428044 (stock #20200727-03)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$25.00
Offered is a lovely and earlier coin silver spoon by Philadelphia silversmith, clockmaker and jeweler Nicholas LeHuray, Jr. (b. 1797 - d. 1846), working circa 1821-46 in that city. Nicholas LeHuray, Jr. made or sold some very fine flatware, and occasional hollowware. His work is not all that scarce but is usually very desirable. Check my other listings for a slightly later and larger set of four teaspoons by LeHuray, Jr. This teaspoon is from the 1820s, on the early end of Nicholas' care...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1900 item #1427992 (stock #20200726-03)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$17.50
Offered is a nice 19th Century American coin silver sugar shell by unknown silversmith or jeweler H. J. Low, possibly a man named Henry J. Low purportedly working in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in the mid-19th Century. I haven't found a verifiable reference for this mark, which is H.J.LOW in a rectangular punch. It doesn't appear that this Mr. Low is related to the much more famous Low family of silversmiths/jewelers in Boston in the same era - at least not closely. This piece has a good clear m...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1900 item #1427394 (stock #20200712-05)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$17.50
Offered is a nice Philadelphia coin silver spoon by the firm of Wriggins & Warden (Howard Wriggins and A. B. Warden), doing business at Fifth and Chestnut streets, and afterward on Chestnut street, above Tenth, from about 1856-67. This teaspoon has a clear maker's mark or retailer's mark, and a period engraved script monogram. This spoon measures about 6 inches in length and weighs about 18 grams. Condition is fair overall, with some light surface wear and two or three dimples in the bowl, bu...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1900 item #1427390 (stock #20200712-02)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$19.50
Offered is a nice American coin silver teaspoon bearing the mark of silversmith Guy Loomis, working 1816-37 in Sheffield, Mass., and 1837 to his death in 1874 in Erie, PA. This spoon is from the Erie period, and so marked. It probably dates to prior to 1860. This piece is engraved with a period script owner's name of 'Mills' and has a good clear maker's mark or retailer's mark. This piece measures about 5 13/16 inches in length and weighs about 16 grams. Condition is fair overall, with a sl...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Flatware : 18th Century : Pre 1800 item #1426106
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
This spoon is an interesting mystery, that might be easily solved, or not. If you can provide a definitive identification of the maker of this spoon, with a reference, you will receive a nice coin silver spoon in good condition, or $15 off your next order with me. This spoon resembles some spoons by William Moulton, and may be by him, though I've not located a reference to this specific maker's mark. It could also be by someone else. The heel is quite specific. The spoon appears dirty, but ...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1425381 (stock #20200602-02)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$45.00
Offered is a lovely pair of early American fiddle pattern coin silver teaspoons, by noted Philadelphia silversmith Phillip Garrett (1780-1851), who was working in Philadelphia from about 1801 through at least 1835. By style, these late transitional fiddle style teaspoons should date to about the 1810-20 range, give or take a few years. Each spoon has a good clear maker's mark and each has a period engraved script monogram. These spoons measure about 5 7/8 inches in length and the pair weighs ...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1900 item #1423554 (stock #20200426-05)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$39.50
Offered is a lovely American coin silver sauce or cream ladle by noted Philadelphia silversmith George K. Childs, who also eventually became Chief Coiner of the United States Mint in Philadelphia. This piece probably dates to the 1840s. It has a clear, well-struck maker's mark and a period engraved script monogram. This piece measures about 7 inches in length and weighs about 26 grams. Condition is good overall, with minor wear and signs of normal use, but no splits or repairs. All in all a...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1900 item #1422919 (stock #20200418-08)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$22.50
Offered is a good American coin silver dessert spoon by the partnership of J. Gorham & Son (Jabez Gorham and John Gorham), working in Providence, RI between 1841 and 1850. This spoon has a good strike of the firm's maker's mark (one of several used over the firm's history), and also has a "Providence.R.I." mark. This piece also features a period engraved owner's name in script. This spoon measures about 7 1/8 inches in length, and weighs about 27 grams. Condition overall is very good, with m...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1900 item #1422915 (stock #20200418-07)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$22.50
Offered is an interesting coin silver dessert spoon made circa 1850s by Gorham & Co. (John Gorham, Gorham Thurber and Lewis Dexter), in business in Providence, Rhode Island between 1852 and 1875. This framed mark with scalloped corners is most common in Providence silver of the 1840s and 50s, and multiple silversmiths and firms seem to have called upon the same die cutter. The framed mark for Gorham & Co. seems to be a fairly uncommon variant, perhaps used only for the first few years of the p...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1900 item #1422879 (stock #20200418-05)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
SOLD
Offered is a late American coin silver dessert spoon bearing manufacturer's marks for Hotchkiss & Schreuder and a retailer's mark for Allison & Bedford (Charles S. Allison and Robert H. Bedford, jewelers) working in partnership in Ionia, Michigan circa 1872-77. The marks are fairly clear and well-struck, and the spoon also has period engraved script owner's information. This spoon measures about 6 7/8 inches in length and weighs about 27 grams. Condition is fair, with some surface and tip wea...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1422334 (stock #20200412-01)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
SOLD
Offered is a very good American coin silver teaspoon bearing the maker's mark or retailer's mark of Philadelphia watchmaker and jeweler John J. Parry (fl. 1790s - 1835); this spoon should date to about 1825 and bears the Philadelphia eagle mark that either signifies manufacture by R. & W. Wilson, or was used by a percentage of the makers of Philadelphia between about 1825-50 to denote quality and/or origin. See my other listings for a separate and somewhat earlier piece bearing Parry's mark alo...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1422333 (stock #20200411-15)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$25.00
Offered is a good early American coin silver teaspoon by watchmaker and silversmith John J. Parry, working in Philadelphia between the 1790s and his death in 1835. Check my other listings for another, later spoon by Parry. This spoon dates to about 1815 based on style, give or take five years. This spoon has a legible maker's mark struck in left-handed fashion, and a period engraved script monogram. This piece measures about 5 7/8 inches in length and weighs about 15 grams. Condition overal...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1422332 (stock #20200411-14)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$22.50
Offered is a lovely and well-made American coin silver teaspoon by the noted firm of Robert and William Wilson, working as R. & W. Wilson of Philadelphia circa 1825-50. This spoon has a slimmer spatulate handle and greater weight than their more American-style wares - the Wilsons seem to have had a line of silver flatware more akin to British examples of the times, and these were usually marked with the R&WW mark. This spoon measures about 6 1/8 inches long and weighs a very heavy 26 grams. I...
All Items : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1900 item #1421159 (stock #20200329-05)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$15.00
Offered is a lovely Victorian English sterling silver master salt spoon by the noted firm of James and Josiah Williams of Bristol, England (though because Bristol had no assay office most of their silver was hallmarked at the Exeter assay office. Their information appears below. This piece is fully hallmarked as having been assayed at Exeter in 1865, and bears a clear maker's mark. It also has a nice engraved period script monogram. This master salt spoon measures about 3 13/16 inches in len...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1421144 (stock #NFS)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
This American coin silver tablespoon dating to about 1820-40 is not for sale, but rather one that I need some help with. It measures about 9 1/8 inches in length and weighs about 50 grams. It has a faint period script engraved monogram running across the top of the handle, and a maker's mark of D.G in a rectangular punch. This piece has a mid-Atlantic or Midwestern feel, though it could be from some places in the American South outside of the major cities. It is almost certainly not by David...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1421043 (stock #20200328-04)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$35.00
Offered is a good Philadelphia coin silver spoon bearing the extremely rare mark of John & Phineas Fries, circa 1837 (the single year of their partnership). While coin silver spoons and other items bearing only the maker's mark of John Fries are somewhat common, and those with just Phineas Fries' maker's mark are scarce but not rare, the mark of their partnership is very hard to find. The mark on this spoon was used for the book "Philadelphia Silversmiths" by Catherine Hollan, and in twenty ye...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1900 item #1415168 (stock #20200119-08)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$40.00
Offered is a good and rare example of the maker's mark of the firm of Morrison & Conklin, a partnership between John H. Morrison and James S. Conklin, circa the 1850s and 60s. This tablespoon has a period engraved script monogram and a rubbed but legible maker's mark. This piece measures about 8 inches in length and weighs about 38 grams. Condition is fair overall, with the bowl out of round and some wear overall, but no splits or repairs. All in all a good example of this desirable Detroit ...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1900 item #1415165 (stock #20200119-06)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$100.00
Offered is a very rare example of the maker's mark or retailer's mark of the firm of Joseph W. Cary & Co. (see biographical information, which has some inaccuracies, below), of Alton, Illinois from the 1840s through about 1875, and of St. Louis, Missouri thereafter. Norman Mack, the author of "Missouri's Silver Age", indicates that no example of the work of this firm have been located. Either only a few pieces have survived, or the majority of spoons bearing this mark were made for, and remain...
 
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