Silver & Silver-plated items
When it comes to antique silverware, the size and weight of objects does not always determine value. Grand works by the likes of London-based Huguenot Paul de Lamerie or the Germain family in Paris have acquired huge status and value, while small objects such as nutmeg graters, early spoons or vesta cases can command high sums as they have a strong specialist collecting base.
The system of silver hallmarks serves as a quality control, giving an official stamp from showing the metal is of requisite purity, but the marks (or punches) also reveal the year, the place of origin and the identity of the maker, providing pieces of silverware with their own stamped passport of information.
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Antiques Trade Gazette Sale of the day
23 May 2014James II large silver chinoiserie footed salver, the circular top flat-chased with a continuous border of four Oriental figures, two long-legged birds and further birds in flight among palm trees and other foliage, beneath sunrays emerging from clouds and further clouds. London 1688 by Benjamin Yate (maker`s mark YT), diameter approx 131/2in (34.3cm). Estimate £30,000-50,000. Sold for £30,000 hammer at Tooveys of Washington, West Sussex, May 21, 2014.
Huge cache of Arts and Crafts wares emerge from bank vault
28 April 2014A massive cache of British Arts and Crafts metalware and ceramics stored in a bank for over 25 years will be sold by Bonhams through their forthcoming decorative arts auctions.
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Archibald Knox on top form as silver cup takes £42,000 at Hampstead auction
23 April 2014This silver cup and cover designed by Archibald Knox for Liberty and Co and hallmarked for Birmingham 1901 sold for £42,000 at north London’s Hampstead Auctions.
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Hungary buys half Sevso hoard
04 April 2014€15m deal sets seal on more than three decades of dispute
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King of the castle sets record at £8500
04 March 2014The commercial fortunes of Victorian silver ‘castle top’ card cases, engraved or embossed with views of British landmarks, depend primarily on the scarcity of the scene depicted.
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£1.3m purchase of unique 15th century survivor
07 January 2014The British Museum and Wiltshire Museum have bought the Lacock Cup, a silver chalice made in the first half of the 15th century, for £1.3m.
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Moorcroft with a $27,000 silver lining
14 October 2013Estimated to sell for $800-1200, this loving cup combining the talents of William Moorcroft and the San Francisco jewellers Shreve & Co. sold for $27,000 (£17,650) at Clars Auction Gallery in Oakland, California.
Nobel Peace medal thief is jailed
10 October 2013A Nobel Peace Prize medal stolen from the Lord Mayor’s Mansion House in Newcastle is still missing despite a 21-year-old man being jailed for the theft.
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Fit for another campaigning Churchill
25 September 2013This James II or William and Mary silver-gilt travelling set c.1690 was among the exceptional pieces of English silver sold at the latest sale held by Mellors & Kirk of Nottingham.
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Communion cup leads Scottish silver sale at £17,000
28 August 2013This Scottish provincial George II communion cup topped Lyon & Turnbull’s latest silver sale in Edinburgh.
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The silver vaults - 60 years as a London institution
15 August 2013Back in 1953, The London Silver Vaults opened on the site of the 1880s Chancery Lane Safe Deposit Company, where the great and the good (and no doubt not so good) of London stowed their valuables.
Dickenson to the rescue
10 June 2013Two items of silver stolen from a Worcestershire house have been returned to the owner after a dealer recognised one of them from an alert in ATG.
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Boulled over at £88,000
20 May 2013Possibly dating from the reign of Louis XIV, this fine boulle casket and stand was among an assortment of jewellery, silver, furniture and pictures at Thomas R. Callan’s sale in Ayr, south west Scotland.
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Silver snail – the ‘trump piece’ bid to £8200
13 May 2013Holding a major silver sale days after the melt price has plummeted by about £3 an ounce is hardly ideal timing.
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Appeal for return of stolen Nobel Peace medal
08 April 2013Rare items stolen during a robbery at the Lord Mayor of Newcastle’s Mansion House include a gold Nobel Peace Prize awarded in the 1930s to Arthur Henderson, a pioneer of the Labour Party and campaigner for disarmament.
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Silverware to be sold to support Durham memorial
21 March 2013Over 130 lots of silverware that once graced the tables of the Durham Light Infantry’s officers’ mess are to be sold at auction to raise funds for a new bronze memorial statue for Durham.
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The Captain’s prize spice box makes £10,500
21 March 2013Family tradition had it that this Mughal silver spice box was looted during the siege of Delhi in September 1857.
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Arts and Crafts silver emerges from bank vault and brings £125,000
07 March 2013It was at Frinton-on-Sea Golf Club that James Grinter, managing director at Reeman Dansie of Colchester, first learned of the Douglas Shepherd collection of Arts and Crafts silver.
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Smart medals of a distinguished Victorian surgeon
01 March 2013This group of orders and medals were awarded to Sir William Smart KCB, a Naval Surgeon and latterly Honorary Physician to Queen Victoria.
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Archibald Knox silver biscuit box takes £26,000
25 February 2013A remarkable collection of Arts & Crafts silver which recently came to light after 40 years in a bank vault sold at Reeman Dansie of Colchester last month.
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