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All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : 18th and Early 19th Century : Pre 1837 VR item #1487368 (stock #20231230-01)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$24.00
Offered is a nice example of a coffin-end or transitional coffin-to-fiddle pattern master salt spoon by Newburyport, MA silversmith Theophilus Bradbury (1763-1848), circa 1805-20. This piece is not monogrammed and there is no obvious sign of an erasure. The maker's mark and pseudo-hallmarks are clearly struck, and the bowl is quite attractive. This piece measures just over four inches in length and weighs 7 grams...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : 18th and Early 19th Century : Pre 1800 item #1475769 (stock #20230326-03)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
SOLD
Offered is an interesting early American 18th Century coin silver teaspoon circa the 1780s, markd B:D, perhaps for Benjamin Drowne of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This piece measures about 4 1/2 inches in length and weighs about 9 grams. It is engraved with a period set of initials and is well-struck with a clear maker's mark of "B:D". Condition is excellent for its age, with no damage or repairs, and minimal wear. All in all a superb early American silver spoon!
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : 18th and Early 19th Century : Pre 1800 item #1404563 (stock #20190716-01)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
This piece is not currently for sale, but if you can solve its mystery mark with a definitive (or at least very strong) attribution, I'll offer you your choice of either $10 off your next order, or a free coin silver spoon in good condition!

This pair of feather-edge sugar tongs are marked once inside the bow with a maker's mark that appears to be IVB conjoined, but could be MB or NB conjoined. Please click on the first photo to scroll through all the pictures...

All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1389527 (stock #NFS)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
This piece is not for sale, but help me solve the mystery of who made this piece, and I will send you a very nice coin silver spoon in thanks! These twist-arm American coin silver sugar tongs measure about 7 1/8 inches in length and weigh about 49 grams. The maker's mark is a fairly crude SR in a serrated punch. Please take a look at all the pictures...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Flatware : 18th Century : Pre 1800 item #1371929 (stock #20171227-01)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
NFS
For your consideration is an interesting late 18th Century style American coin silver spoon, marked "W (pellet) D". This mark has been attributed by Catherine Hollan to Wilson Dalzell (mark B) in her book on South Carolina silversmiths. This spoon measures about 4 15/16 inches in length and weighs about 8 grams...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : 18th and Early 19th Century : Pre 1837 VR item #1352013 (stock #NFS)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
Not for Sale
Offered is a challenge - identify the silversmith who made this spoon, with a verifiable and supportable attribution, and I will send you a surprise coin silver teaspoon in good condition (worth about $15-20) as a prize! I haven't yet found this mark anywhere, and thought it an interesting experiment to leverage the talents of some of the silver enthusiasts and experts out there.

This piece measures about 8 1/8 inches in length and weighs about 64 grams...

All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1320831 (stock #20160103-05)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
Auction
Offered is a gorgeous pair of American coin silver sugar tongs by Ward & Cox, a very short-lived (1811) partnership between silversmiths Jehu Ward and Benjamin Cox. This pair of sugar tongs, dating back more than two hundred years, is exceptional for its form and execution. See the pictures for the lovely detail on the grips and the fine proportions. These tongs measure about 5 5/8 inches in length, and weigh about 44 grams...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1307582 (stock #20150822-01)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$15.00
Offered is an unusual example of an early American coin silver spoon made in the workshop of Joseph Shoemaker but also struck with a large mark of a "T" - the mark could be a journeyman's, but is so large and placed in such a way as to undercut Shoemaker's maker's mark. As such it is unlikely the mark was on the spoon when it was first marked by Shoemaker. It is possible the spoon was resold by someone else, but the most likely explanation is that it was an inventory stamp within the family...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1306987 (stock #20150816-03)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$65.00
Offered is a very rare example of the output of the partnership of Charles and George Fletcher of Philadelphia, brothers to the famous silversmith and proprietor Thomas Fletcher, whose firm Fletcher and Gardiner would set the standard for monumental silver for a time in Philadelphia. Charles and George united in partnership in July 1818, and dissolved their union by early 1824...
All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : Pre 1837 VR item #1304149 (stock #20150719-06)
Cliff Nunn - Antique Silver and Decorative Arts
$125.00
Offered is an important find - an early American coin silver dessert spoon by John Beck, a silversmith working in Warrior's Mark, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania around 1824-30. This information comes from Metzgar and Whisker's "Pennsylvania Clockmakers and Watchmakers Goldsmiths and Silversmiths - A Checklist". Metzgar and Whisker also cite a reference to an 1887 history of Clarion County, which notes that one John Beck was the first watchmaker there (perhaps the late 1830s to 1840s)...
 
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