SILVER KANTHAROS FROM POMPEII

I have this silver kantharos from pompeii, what would be the price for it?

 

Welcome BarbarU

We won't discuss value here...

But I'm sure lots of us will want to know more about your piece, and will eventually discuss the authentication


http://www.ascasonline.org/windowDICEM55.html

 

Sniped by kyra. Was just about to put up the same link. I'll add this one:

https://www.justcollecting.com/miscellania/italian-silver-handled-pedestal-vase-by-calderoni

The best way to get an idea of value is to look at past auction results:

https://auctions.dreweatts.com/past...-details/39587a5b-23e8-4cb5-b76d-ab26009b61a7

 

Who can help authenticate it? Or at least give an approximate value?

 

Your cup does not look very silver in the photos. Is it marked anywhere, either for sterling or for 800 silver?

This one is English silver from 1834 & was sold by Bulgari:

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder...two-handled-replica-of-a-5554785-details.aspx

 

It is marked at the bottom, 800.

 

Also, do you know anything about this?

 

It is an authentic reproduction. At best, it is an authentic Grand Tour souvenir.

So probably made in Italy, long after 79AD.

At a minimum it is worth the melt down value of the silver, which is about $15/ounce just now. After that, it is worth whatever someone is willing to pay. Nothing has an absolute, unchanging value.

 

Thank you for the answers, what about the knifes?

 

I agree. It is a beautiful replica.
The 800 mark was never used in Roman times. I believe it began to be used in the late 19th century, probably in the 1870s. In 1934 official Italian hallmarks were introduced, so I would place your kantharos in the late 19th-early 20th century.

The good thing is, you won't be persecuted for handling an item looted from an Italian monument.

 

Or prosecuted.

 

That's the one. Lately I have to re-write just about every word I write.
Otherwise I'm fine.

Technically it would be both, first persecuted and then prosecuted.

 

Do you? Please tell us what you already know. It would probably be better to start a new thread for the knives & put them in the Militaria section where more people who know about knives will see them.

 

I see it is one knife & a pair of chopsticks. We have had these before. @Any Jewelry who is it who collects these?

 

Persecute is what we do to people who ask about dodgy antiquities.

 

Both komokwa and Shangas do.


Edited to remove the tags because of a new thread for the trousse, it is just the member's names now.
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/trousse-knife-and-chopsticks-set.51568/

 

Good thing the kantharos isn't dodgy.

 

Thank you for all the answers, really appreciate it, i posted them in the militaria section, i do have a lot of other things, like coins, pictures, what about this bracelet, does anyone know anything about it ?