Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd. Boxes

A George V sterling silver fruit bowl in the Art Deco style; hallmarked London, 1934, and made by The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Ltd. Assay: .925 (Sterling Silver). Dat...

An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of antique George V English sterling silver nutcrackers - boxed; an addition to our silver flatware...

George III tea caddy replica. Obtained from a silver sheet, it is rectangular in shape with shaped sides, it is embossed and chiseled with floral motifs and shells. The feet reprodu...

Heading : Goldsmiths and Silversmiths cruet set Date : Hallmarked in London in 1903 for the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths company Period : Edward VII Origin : London, England Decoratio...

Rosewood box decorated with a sterling silver and enamel plaque by the Italian silversmith Ottaviani, circa 1960s. Signed with the maker’s signature and “925”. Notes: Ottaviani (194...

Large rectangular table box with long rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. With “lost” hinge, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 10.5 x 15 x 2.3. Weight gr. 548. Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in the 1980s, manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick and thick slabs reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 800° C. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier. Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ". With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones. At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists. In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001. In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State". We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue. An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier catalogue...

Antique Sterling silver cigarette case Weight 160 grams PRADERA is a second generation of a family run business jeweler...

An impeccable and unique sterling silver drinks set with a hunting theme, featuring a large cocktail shaker in the form of a hunting horn as the centre-piece. The shaker, partly lemo...

Regency style, sterling silver, knife-box-form tea caddy with hinged lid, American, Ca. 1910. Has a wreath-form cartouche, which is engraved with the script initials RA that look lik...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Edwardian English sterling silver vesta case; an addition to our theatrical related silverware collection This fine antique Edwardian English sterling silver vesta case has a plain rectangular rounded form. The anterior surface of the vesta case is embellished with the applied inscription 'Adelphi Theatre, 1906' to the cover and 'With Otho Stuart's Compliments' to the body. The posterior surface of the cover bears the applied inscription 'Souvenir of A Midsummer Night's Dream' The reverse of the case features an impressive embossed scene from a Midsummer Night's Dream Act IV scene I; this scene depicts the character Bottom with the ears of an ass being doted on by Titania. This fine sterling silver vesta case has a hinged cover which incorporates a plain thumbpiece to the anterior edge. There is an integrated serrated panel/match striker to the underside. Condition This antique silver vesta case...

A fine antique Georgian engraved sterling silver tea caddy, by Henry Chawner, London, 1787. Of fluted oval form with bright-cut floral borders with ...

A wonderful Art Nouveau period silver pot pourri box with a detailed pierced and repousse swan lake scene, the two swans sitting within the entwining duck leaves. The hinged lid opens to reveal a interior. Hallmarks: London 1907 William Comyns Retailed: Finnigans Ltd Manchester Weight: 102g William Comyns were a London based manufacturing silversmiths who traded from around 1858 until the 1930s. The firm was founded by William Comyns when he bought the business of Robert Tagg (founded in 1730) around 1858 and entered his first mark from the original Robert Tagg premises in Soho, London. The business expanded rapidly and the firm moved and gradually took up more and more premises on Beak Street, off Regent Street. They became William Comyns & Son in 1885 when his two sons Charles and Richard joined the partnership. They had a significant impact in the 1880s by producing large numbers of decorative items in silver which were retailed through leading London retailers of the time such as Henry Lewis...