Featured Here's something shiny for everybody to find.

This is not mine but I do know the seller.

They bought it for $1,430.00 with buyers' premium Friday night & sold it for $2,300.00 this morning.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2753465070...=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

My comment when I saw it was someone had been mixing their tequila & their peyote.

 

Wow!

 

Other than being sterling,theres nothing to recommend that ugly thing !

 

I have bought & sold ugly before & would do it again in a heartbeat for a quick profit of several hundred dollar profit.

 

I don't see monkey. It looks to me like a Warner's brothers WWII era caricature of a Japanese man.

 

I would not have looked twice at that item. Thanks Peggy for sharing.

 

It's silversmith's interpretation of a Pre-Columbian Pot. They made a quick grand-but they also had to make a $1400 Bet ! I feel safer (and sleep better), keeping my up-front money under a few hundred bucks.
WOW-they must really know the silver market to take that kind of risk !
It'll look good on the the Tiki Bar of somebody's 5 million dollar house.

 

When I first saw it I thought it was missing a lid which would have been the head of the monkey. If you look at all of the photos you can see that the tail wraps around & forms the "handle" in the front.

The auctioneer found a couple of others online, including one sold by Sotheby's last year for $3,780.00, that was exactly like this one. There was also one sold by artnet. So either it never had a lid, all 3 had lost their original lid or it is the same ice bucket.

I think it is the first option because when I looked at it closely there was no evidence of a lid around the top edge.

Here is the Sotheby's sale.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auc.../a-mexican-silver-monkey-form-ice-bucket-tane

The buyer who got this is one of those types of buyers that like to make others think he knows more than they do & really doesn't back down very often. The problem is there are several of them that go out there regularly & sometimes they keep bidding cause they don't want to lose to the others. It can be a lot of fun to watch when there is lots of silver to be had & he had a butt load that night in the form of goblets, sherbets, flatware & a drop-dead gorgeous basket.

In one of the descriptions, the auctioneer found the bucket described as a copy of a pre-Columbian statue.

 

Not the same as the Sotheby's example. The arcs in the eyes are definitely different , as are various tell-tales in the silver.




So there are multiples of this out there.

 

Good sleuthing MOS.

 

Good catch & sleuthing on the Barware front ! Funny-no top for an Ice Bucket. Here's a Napier 'Penguin' Cocktail Shaker,I found a couple these (1 in the '70's,1 in the 80's). One of the better Shakers I ever found was the Zeppelin by J A Henckels.Should've waited 40 years to sell 'em ! Sorry re the abbreviated pic-click on it should pop up.

 

Did anyone else catch the blurb at the bottom of the Sotheby's page that said one of these sold at Christy's Rockefeller auction?

 

Grand profit on an Ebay Buy-now that's some fast & fancy dancin' ! I used to glean Ebay obsessively (like a gambling addiction),had to back off around 2010.Got a Job,not as much maniacal fun,but got me Health Insurance & a House...still miss the 'Bay Rush though ! here's my 1st buy (late '90's maybe ?),20-30 bucks i recall-Victorian Wine Carrier/Silverplate.I still have it.

 

I was thinking 4" in diameter seems a bit small for an ice bucket but I'll bow to wiser minds

 

SIS I was wondering if you were ok, maybe I missed you posting elsewhere.

 

Oh thanks for missing me !

I've popped in a bit. I was busy and then I injured a finger that required surgery. Not a big deal but on my right hand and i'm right handed so I've been healing it up.

 

Glad to hear you are ok, take care of your finger and feel good.