William Comyns & Sons Clocks

Antique Edwardian sterling silver box. Maker : Henry Matthews Made in England, Birmingham, 1903 Fully hallmarked. Dimensions - Length x width x height: 7.2 x 6 x 2.6 cm We...

A pretty Antique Silver Gilt and Viennese Enamel Clock. This oval Clock rests on the back of an ostrich, which in turn stands on a domed base. Th...

Important antique Russian Imperial Faberge silver gilt chalcedony (black onyx) diamond miniature desk clock, by workmaster Feodor Afanassiev (1870-1927), the clock circa 1900. In 1883 Afanasiev moved to St Petersburg and was apprenticed in the Nevsky Prospekt workshop of Finnish master goldsmith Enok Sistonen. In 1888, Afanasiev moved into the workshop of the Court Jeweller Karl Bock...

Sweet American Edwardian sterling silver picture frame, circa 1910. Rectangular window with scalloped border and shaped surround with concave sides and bottom arched top, and double-...

Edwardian sterling silver water pitcher. Made by Frank M. Whiting Co. in North Attleboro, Mass., ca 1910. Lobed and oval body on short and scalloped foot. Capped and scroll-mounted h...

Hallmarked in London in 1902 by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co., this very attractive, Edwardian, Antique Sterling Silver Vase, has octagona...

This very large sterling silver ladies dresser or vanity set was made in the United States, in approximately 1920 in the period Art Deco style. The set ...

A wonderful large and chunky antique sterling silver pig pincushion. Well detailed this robust chap is a good size with defined features. Hailing from the Edwardian era and fully h...

Square table clock with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions cm. 11.8 x 11.8. Silver weight gr. 449. Swiss mechanical movement with 8-day charge and alarm. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1976 inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects, in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large 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...

Antique Edwardian 925 sterling silver box. Made in England, London, 1908 Maker: Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd. Fully hallmarked. Dimensions - Size: Length x width x heigh...

Turn-of-the-century Edwardian classical sterling silver bowl. Made by Gorham in Providence. Round with lobed and concave sides. Wavy shoulder with applied leaves and flowers, and scr...

Small table clock in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche, with columns in neo-classical Hellenic style. Swiss mechanical movement from Mai...