Featured What about this set of stearling tea set? William IV?? Authentic? Thanks

That set is gorgeous, much better than mine. I am curious how much it was sold for?

 

I'm afraid that since it was a direct sale to a private buyer, we are not going to know.

 

If you scroll down on this page of London silversmiths' marks you will see the ones with IW & can compare your marks with the photos.

 

I have a TOUGH time with ANY marks but found it interesting that the crowned leopard head seemed (at least to me) to have two different sets of dates......maybe AF explained it?? I think BOTH were from here:
http://www.925-1000.com/british_marks.html

 

@Aquitaine This one looks like jasper too, which makes feel better.

 

The "summary" display (the lower screen shot) just shows you all the marks which have been used for London, not that they would all be used at the same time, of course.

 

Asian Fever, anytime you see someone post a link for any of the silver Hallmark sites, definitely bookmark it!!!! I'm learning they can be valuable resources, but don't have many, as I had thought I did!!!!! I'm still trying to put some sense in my bookmarks!!!
I picked this one up from someone on this site:
http://www.gzu-online.com/index2.php?page=hallmarks&l=2&p=5

 

There's a lot for me to learn.
But it is very interesting. At least, I feel it isn't so tricky as chinese porcelain.

 

Whoops, missed this, didn't get the alert. I agree with af on dates and also that it has been got at, for want of a better word. The Victorians had a habit of "improving" lovely old simple Georgian silver by bashing at it with an embossing tool. Damn their eyes. I've a little 1780 ish cream jug which was got at by a muppet in about 1870.

The feet are fine, very typical of the early 19th. I think the handles are as well. And the snake head spout. The handles and spout consort very nicely indeed and have the same feel. But the rest would have been so elegantly plain. All the floriferousness is nonsense.

Doesn't mean it isn't pretty and I suspect in some markets, especially Middle Eastern or Eastern European it would sell well.

 

Last week an "expert" on the telly saw a piece of clobbered silver. She said "In the trade we call this victorianised" I was shouting at the screen "no we don't, we say it is clobbered"

 

I guess I didn't know that silver was referred to as clobbered. It's a term often used in ceramics such as Chinese porcelain that started out fairly straight forward and is then enameled afterward.