Engraved tortoiseshell silver-mounted casket, likely Spanish colonial, comprised of a domed top with engraved silver mounts throughout, consisting of a lock and a hasp, a shaped handle on the lid, corner mounts and floral medallions, one on each side. Additional engraved decoration to the front and back depicting ovals and thistle. 7 1/4" H x […]
Lot 115: 5 Small Vertu Boxes: Pique Tortoise, Sterling Silver, Burlwood
5 small antique objets de vertu including 1 Sterling silver oblong snuff box with engraved dog and eel or snake decoration, hallmarked for Samuel Pemberton, Birmingham, 1806-1807;1 pique tortoiseshell oblong coin purse with silver and gilt inlaid geometric decoration; 1 tortoiseshell navette shaped needle case or toothpick box with inlaid dot decoration and navette shaped […]
Lot 112: 6 Columbian Exposition Cold Painted Bronze Matador Items, Bergmann & Columbus Matchbox
1st – 5th items: European cold painted bronze Matador or Toreadore desk set after Franz Bergmann, consisting of five (5) pieces, including an inkstand having a figural bull inkwell together with a matador or toreador, a pair of figural toreador candleholders, a chamberstick with a kneeling figural toreador, and a figural picadore bell. All items […]
Lot 113: 3 Burlwood Veneer Boxes & 1 Inlaid Box. 4 items
Grouping of four (4) European boxes including two (2) English burlwood veneer tea caddies with domed tops, two inner compartments and brass mounts; one (1) English burlwood veneer tea caddy with domed top having a brass shield and three interior compartments; and one (1) small Continental round mixed woods box with inlay to the lid […]
Lot 110: Pair French Neoclassical Ormolu Urns
Pair of Neoclassical or Empire style gilt bronze urns, campana form, each with flaring rim, acanthus leaf accents, garland and mask decoration to the body, supported by four winged caryatids mounted on gilt bronze plinths with figural, satyr mask, and cabochon decorations. Unsigned. 10 5/8" H x 6 1/4" W x 6 1/4" D. Likely […]
Lot 111: Pair E. Bouret Neoclassical Figural Candelabra
Pair (2) Eutrope Bouret (France, 1833-1906) Neoclassical gilt bronze figural candelabra depicting barefooted women dressed in belted togas and headpieces, holding a feather fan in one hand, and raising a torch in the other which contains a five-armed candelabra. Shaft and arms with sheaf-of-wheat foliate accents terminating in bobeches with swag decoration; surmounted by spherical, […]
Lot 109: Group of TN Coin Silver Flatware including Calhoun Ladle
Eight (8) pieces coin silver flatware attributed to Tennessee makers and/or retailers. 1st item: Soup or punch ladle with beading and tracery design to handle, stamped JP Patent 1855 (likely the Oriental Pattern by John Polhemus) with incuse stamp W.H. CALHOUN for retailer William Henry Calhoun, working Nashville, 1835-d. 1865. 2nd-7th items: Six (6) teaspoons […]
Lot 107: 37 pcs Coin & Sterling Silver Flatware, TN Retailers Calhoun & Gowdy
Thirty-seven (37) pieces sterling and coin silver flatware marked for Nashville, Tennessee retailers George Reid Calhoun & Co. (working 1843-d.1903) and Thomas Gowdey (working 1825-1863). 1st – 32nd items: Thirty-two (32) assorted pieces coin silver flatware in a pointed oval pattern with engraved floral design, with incuse marks THOS GOWDEY, including 1 gravy ladle, 11 […]
Lot 108: Coin Silver Mug, Tennessee & Louisiana marks
Coin Silver mug with unusual double marks for James Merriman of Memphis TN and Claudius Redon of New Orleans, LA. Reeded rims, angular handle, and cylindrical body engraved, "Presented.". Stamped on underside C. REDON in rectangle, surrounded by MERRIMAN and MEMPHIS in rectangles. 3 1/4"H. 3.58 oz troy. Note: Claudius Redon (1788-1857) worked in New […]
Lot 106: 2 Coin Silver Mugs with Charleston, SC marks
1st item: Coin silver hexagonal mug, marks for Charleston, SC retailers Hayden, Brothers, & Co. (Augustus H. Hayden, Hezekiah S. Hayden, and William G. Whilden, working 1852-1855) and makers William Gale & Son of New York, dated 1853, having a finely beaded rim and foot ring and repousse shell and foliate decoration to the body […]