Different journeyman... ~Cheryl
It's not a Britannia standard mark, this mark is Hibernia - it is proper Dublin sterling marks for Samuel Neville, 1818, with a little...
Items like this were typically offered as pin trays and/or ash receivers... ~Cheryl
My last name has 'Wink' in it, my ex's last name has 'Dink', and we've both often been called the short version and various other variants, with...
Not unusual to find the 'Czech' mark on the jump ring, and the mark generally indicates pre 1940s dating (no earlier than 1918) - they look like...
Eh, just a fast hit and run - very quick image search for 'Stickley drop leaf desk'. Kind of nice to see 'Wink' - used to be one of my nicknames,...
See here: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/gustav-stickley-drop-leaf-desk-721-with-237-c-229ca81368 ~Cheryl
More realistic sold prices from eBay on similarly decorated cups & saucers: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] ~Cheryl
Here is one very similar (same blank), with its demitasse cup - should add the seller's asking price strikes me as quite optimistic, and again,...
Hi - it's another orphan saucer, the marks pics are upside down and sideways and are pretty fuzzy, but believe it looks like Doulton Burslem,...
Just for general information, this old thread delves into the suggested restrictions on stock silver flatware services, instituted by then...
I'm in Orlando, so may see if I can get up to Charlotte when it travels there - but am planning a trip to Rhode Island at some point, my paternal...
Gorham is a weakness of mine, so I pre-ordered the book associated with the Designing Brilliance exhibit, and waited excitedly for the release...
There are silver exhibits in numerous museums in the U.S. - and most large exhibits had published catalogs or books, and high-end auction catalogs...
Peter Dooney of Dooney & Bourke bought it several years ago, but seems to take little interest - they keep plugging away anyway... Might find...
There is also the fact that, even with pieces lost to scrap, there is still quite a bit of old silver available, including full services of both...
You're right of course, 'major' would have been a better term - any firm that's been in business over a century, still producing and selling...
The major American silver manufacturers no longer really exist - nearing or in bankruptcy, most sold off to conglomerates some time ago (and they...
Three recently sold on eBay, all from Germany - one solid blue for $110 plus shipping, another, also blue with fat lava, sold for an offer under...
Not sure this dealer (do they even actually sell themselves?) deserves to be maligned because they politely answered (and rather quickly at that)...
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