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Sheffield and Silverplate For Sale
Period: Mid-20th Century
Period: 1960s
Set of Art Deco Silver-plated Flatware mode MIRA By LUC LANEL for CHRISTOFLE
Located in Roma, IT
I am offering for sale a lot of "MIRA" model cutlery, designed by LUC LANEL and produced since the 1930s by the historic French brand Christofle.
Purchased from us in Rome, we think...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
Large Silver Plated Sea Shell Plate Hollywood Regency Art Deco Italian 1970s
Located in London, GB
This large silver-plated sea-shell shaped bowl is an evocative nod to Venus and the organic curves of nature.
Imported from 1970s Italy, it seamlessly blends the 1940s Art Deco eleg...
Category
1960s Italian Aesthetic Movement Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
English Art Deco Silver Plated Cocktail Shaker by Mappin & Webb
Located in Bath, GB
A handsome 1 pint cocktail shaker in silver plate by the top-notch silversmith, Mappin & Webb of London and Sheffield.
The underside is fully marked together with the trademark "Mappin Plate...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Art Deco Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Large Silver Plate Champagne & Wine Chiller Cooler, 3 Hole Lid European
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Large and impressive champagne cooler / centre piece in silver plate metal. In very good condition. Made probably in the 1950s or older. Marked with manufactory logo.
Fount at an Es...
Category
Mid-20th Century Belgian Art Nouveau Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate, Metal
Pair of Mid Century Danish Modern Silver Plate Candelabras Candle Holders
Located in Pearland, TX
A stylish pair of Mid-Century Modern Danish silver plate candelabras candlestick holders by Berg of Denmark, circa 1960. Maker's mark on reverse. Accom...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Normandy Ship Original Champagne Bucket Luc Lanel design 1932 Christofle
By Luc Lanel, Christofle
Located in Paris, FR
This collector piece is a very famous silver-plated Christofle champagne bucket that was designed by Luc Lanel and made for the famous Normandie cruise ship only.
This champagne buc...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
French Silver Plated Champagne Bottle Recipe Cocktail Shaker c.1930
Located in Bath, GB
A rare French Recipe cocktail shaker made in silver plate in the form of a champagne bottle. What makes this one so special and collectable is the engraved mount to the front engrave...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage SCC Gold Electroplated Handles, Bamboo Steak Knives - A Set of 6
Located in Charleston, SC
Beautiful set of knives. They have a bamboo look handle and are a very nice shiny gold. They are in great condition with very little signs of use. The case on the outside is in great...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Hollywood Regency Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Silver Plate Ice Bucket
Located in Pearland, TX
A superb vintage Art Deco style petite silverplate ice bucket made in France. Hallmarked on reverse. This stylish ice bucket has ring handles and a sleek design with clean lines, per...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Silver Willow by Heritage Silverplate Flatware Set Service 49 pcs New Modern
Located in Big Bend, WI
New, unused Silver Willow by Heritage China, modern design silverplated Flatware set, 49 pieces. This set includes:
8 Knives, 8 3/4"
8 Forks, 7 3/4"...
Category
1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
1930s Silver Plated Plateau Bordered with Scrolling Leaves
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
1930s silver-plated plateau raised on four cast grape motif pierced feet. The border is cast with scrolling leaves & grape clusters. Mirror possibly replaced. Re-fabric backed. 15" d...
Category
1930s English Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Silver Plate Modernist Sculptural Napkin Rings Set of 6 Vintage
Located in North Miami, FL
This set of six polished vintage silver plate sculptural napkin rings will set any table with elegance and modern elements. There are four of the same elliptical shape and two of ano...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
English Silver Plated Asparagus Serving Set by Walker and Hall
Located in Bath, GB
A stunning vintage Art Deco silver plated Asparagus serving set just back from our silversmith's workshop, where it has been professionally cleaned and polished, restoring it to it's former glory.
It consists of three pieces, the serving tray, draining rack...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Art Deco Silver Plated Entree or Serving Dish, English C.1930
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Very smart silver plated entree dish
Fabulous quality. Makers mark of Roberts And Belk, Sheffield on the underside
No rubbing to the silver plate.
Free UK shipping
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver
1970 Lino Sabattini Christofle Gallia Silver Metal Leaves Set
Located in Brescia, IT
Set 4 Leaves
Lino sabattini
Christofle _ Gallia
1950
Very Good Condiction
Lenght leaves: 10 cm / 10 cm / 8 cm / 11 cm
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver
20th century French Christofle Set of 12 small Spoon, 1950s
By Christofle
Located in LEGNY, FR
Very nice box of 12 (+1) silver plated spoons from the famous Christofle brand in silver plated metal. Stamp on each spoon.
Very good condition. For lovers of tableware.
Category
1950s French Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage Silver Plated Cruet Set with Cut and Beveled Crystal Glass Bottles, 50s
Located in Roma, IT
I am offering for sale a Cruet Set in silver plated and glass with an ancient charm but dating back to the mid-twentieth century.
The cut and beveled geometric decoration on the glass dispensers...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Crystal, Silver Plate
Vintage Silverplate Samovar, Coffee Urn Made by Sheridan
Located in Birmingham, AL
Vintage/ antique silver-plated coffee urn, likely crafted in the late 19th or early 20th century. with detach warmers, in very good condition, a statement piece, it is very shiny , i...
Category
Mid-20th Century American American Classical Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage Art Deco French Silver-Plate and Rosewood Pedestal Bowl Or Serving Piece
Located in North Miami, FL
This stunning and substantial French Art Deco silver- plate and rosewood base pedestal bowl or serving piece has concentric lines at the column and top of the base before the rosewoo...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Pitcher
By Jean Despres
Located in New York, NY
Heavy gauge silver plated pitcher in a hammered finish with Despres’ Signature chain motif around the base and a wooden handle.
Category
1950s French Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver, Silver Plate
"Trophy Bowl for Billy Direct, " Art Deco Silver Bowl for Champion Horse, 1938
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A stunning work of art and a significant historic memorial to a great moment in horse racing history, this silver plated bowl by International Silver was given by The National Trotti...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage Crescent Silver Plate Grape Vine Pattern Round Platter Tray
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Crescent silver plate 17" grape vine pattern round platter tray. Item features a grape vine pattern, flower and scroll engraving, twin handles, or...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Regency Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage Quality Silver Plated Cocktail Shaker by Christofle, Paris, c.1935
By Christofle
Located in Bath, GB
A superb French cocktail shaker just back from our silversmith's workshop having been professionally cleaned and polished returning it to it's former glory dating to c.1935.
Christofle is a goldsmith and tableware company, founded in Paris in 1830 by Charles Christofle...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Iconic Art Deco Cocktail Shaker by Adie Brothers, circa 1930s
Located in Bath, GB
A striking silver plated cocktail shaker in a terrific Art Deco shape.
Just back from our silversmith's workshop where it has been professionally cleaned and polished, restoring i...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Gio Ponti for Cleto Munari Modernist Silver Plated Serving Plate Italy, 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Amazing mid-century silver plate serving plate. Gio Ponti designed and signed this astonishing item for Cleto Munari in Italy during the 1980s.
The flat and efficient design on two round levels, make this piece simply irresistible and iconic for midcentury lovers.
This piece will smarten a midcentury living room or minimal and chromed bar.
This wonderful piece is in very good condition.
Dimensions (cms):
Diameter - 32
Giovanni “Gio” Ponti, (Milan, November 18, 1891 - Milan, September 16, 1979), is one of the Italian masters of architecture. He was also a designer and essayist and one of the most important of the twentieth century.
Other than the great architectural works which carry his unmistakable signature, he created a vast amount of work in the furniture sector. This is demonstrated in his three Milanese houses which were fully furnished in the "Ponti" style. The houses in via Randaccio, 1925, Casa Laporte in via Brin, 1926 and the last in via Dezza, in 1957 is an "expression" of his home design ideas. Gio Ponti was an Italian promoter of industrial design and introduced the idea of interior furnishing ranges produced as being a "sophisticated," economic, "democratic" and modern.
Molteni&C managed a reissuing project of furniture and furnishings designed by Gio Ponti for products for these private homes and limited editions. After a long journey of research, selection and study of prototypes, the collection was exhibited at the Salone del Mobile 2012. This was thanks to the cooperation and the exclusively signed agreement of the Ponti heirs and the artistic director of Cerri & Associati Studio.
Gio Ponti graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan at the end of World War I, after he fought on the front line earning military decorations. In 1921 he married Giulia Vimercati, with whom he had four children: Lisa, Giovanna, Letizia and Giulio. In 1927 he opened a studio in Milan with the architect Emilio Lancia. From the beginning of the 1920’s until 1938 he worked with Richard-Ginori Manufactory and renewed its production. In 1928 he founded the Domus magazine with Gianni Mazzocchi. In 1933 he became the artistic director of Fontana Arte which was another success after the one he obtained with Richard-Ginori.
In the 1930’s he participated in the Triennale exhibitions and later he successfully managed a few of them. From 1936 to 1961 he was a professor at the Milan Polytechnic, and in 1933 was associated with Antonio Fornaroli and Eugenio Soncini, until 1945. From this partnership major projects were born, including the Montecatini Palace in Milan from 1936 to 1938, in which Ponti created the "integral design" of the building and the interiors. Other works of the period were civil architecture, including the Littoria Tower in Milan in 1933, school buildings such as the School of Mathematics at the University City Rome in 1934 and the Humanities Faculty and the Rectorate of the University of Padua in 1937. There were also residential projects such as Casa Marmont in 1934 and Milan "Domus" from 1931 to 1936.
The richness of the artistic production of Cleto Munari, arises out of the discovery that every boundary is undefined, and the consequent need to create a “collection about syllables” or rather a “collection of figures” which, because of their incompleteness, luminously suggest the irrepressible quest of man’s intelligence to transfigure the world, according to his own vision. It is this a perfect complicity between the whisper of the “heart...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Round Silver Plate Tray by Cassetti, Italy, 1960s
By Cassetti
Located in London, GB
Hand hammered silver plate tray marked on the tray "Cassetti Fatto a mano", Italy.
Category
1960s Italian Adam Style Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Art Deco French Christofle Silver Plate Silverplate Bud Vase Made in France
By Christofle
Located in San Diego, CA
Wonderful Art Deco silverplate bud vase with a trio of stylized bird figures at the base by Christofle. Made in France and is marked with the script logo on the side and with hallmar...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
A Pair of Antique Salt Shaker Sliver Quail Birds Decorative Salt Shaker & Tray
Located in Wembley, GB
Small Silver Birds Vintage Salt and Pepper, Set of 2 w/ Sliver Quail Birds with Tray.
Antique valuable silver plated salt and pepper shake...
Category
1960s Japanese Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver, Sheet Metal, Silver Leaf
Vintage Italian Hollywood Regency Silver Plated Scalloped Serving Platter Tray
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Italian Hollywood Regency Silver Plated Scalloped Edge Serving Platter Tray. Circa mid to late 20th Century. Measurements: 1.5" H x 25.5" W x 16.5" D
Category
Mid-20th Century Hollywood Regency Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Hermès Vintage Silver Plate Double Bridle Post Tray, Bowl And Barware
By Hermès
Located in North Miami, FL
This amazing vintage Hermès rare silver plate double tray or bowl has the center of a rendition of the post that horses would have been bridled to. It is hallmarked Hermès Paris Made in France. This is the largest one seen that is vintage from the 1960s or very early 1970s. It is a rare tray or bowl because of its double size. This is great for serving or as a desk or cocktail accessory. It is rarely seen or on the market at this size. This came from a special Hermès private collector. Tres chic! This has good weight to it. The height to the center bridle circular post is 5". This is great barware as well. Hermes at...
Category
1960s French Modern Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Table Knife Fork Stainless Sheffield Set of Cutlery 37 England Antique Art Deco
Located in Wembley, GB
Vintage Sheffield table knife and fork set of 37 items, as shown in the pictures, stainless steel, with unique handles.
This vintage set of fine Sheffield cutlery knives and forks is done in stainless steel and porcelain handles.
The handles fit perfectly in hands. This traditional version of OLD ENGLISH has pistol-handled knives with beautiful Queen Anne blades. Queen Anne Pistol Dinner Knives.
They all marked as the J. Adams Ltd (Sheffield Knives...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Metal, Steel, Stainless Steel
Mid-Century Oversized Silver-Plated Apple Ice Bucket, Italian
Located in London, GB
This is an elegant silver-plated oversized apple ice bucket made in Italy in the 1950s. The reflective surface of polished silver metal captures its surround...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
English Sheffield Silver Plate / Engraved Interior Round Serving Tray
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Introduce a touch of timeless elegance to your entertaining with this exquisite English Sheffield Silver Plate serving tray. The round shape is adorned with delicately engraved flora...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Hans Bunde Carl M Cohr Danish Mid-Century Silver Plated Coffee Set
By Hans Bunde
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish quality Danish mid-century electroplated nickel silver three piece coffee set with ebony handles designed by Hans Bunde for Carl M Cohr and d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage Victorian Style Silver Plated English Warmer Buffet Chaffing Dish
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Victorian Style Silver Plated English Warmer Chaffing Dish. Item features a lift out serving dish with handles and bunson burner below. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Victorian Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique Styled Silver Plated Oval Gallery Serving Tray with Cut Out Handles
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This oval silver plated gallery serving tray was made by Cavendish Plate in England in approximately 1950 in an earlier antique style. The tray is done in silver plated copper and ha...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Edwardian Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Copper
Salt and Pepper Pots with Spoons
By Jean Despres
Located in New York, NY
Silver-plated metal with a base encompassed by three rows of Depres’s bead motif. Signed on the underside.
Category
1950s French Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Metal, Silver
Mid-Century Modern Era Italian Silver Individual Buffet Au Jus Sauce Boat
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Mid-Century individual mini sauce boats, Alpacca Nickel Silver, Italy, circa 1960s.
Offered by the piece.
Each small boat has a loop handle, a spout, and sits on three ball feet.
S...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver
Art Deco Hammered Silver Plate Cocktail Shaker / Set c.1930
Located in Bath, GB
A magnificent cocktail set which came to us as a set but started life on two different sides of the Atlantic; New York meets London!
The cocktail shaker was made by the top-notch ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Gio’ Ponti Handles Brass, 1950, Italy
By Gio Ponti
Located in Milano, IT
Gio‘ Ponti handles brass, 1950
Italy.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Brass
Large English Silver Plated Centerpiece Basin / Jug
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Mid 20th century English silver plated Edwardian style large centerpiece / wash basin and jug. The jug piece features exterior handmade decorated fl...
Category
1930s English Edwardian Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper
Stylish Art Deco Silver Plated Cocktail Shaker by William Hutton
Located in Bath, GB
A highly desirable cocktail shaker, Art Deco in era, dating to c.1930 with a wonderfully stylish modernist design incorporating a loop design to the top of the cap.
The design of ...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage English Victorian Silver Plated Reticulated Square Serving Platter Tray
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage English Victorian Silver Plated Reticulated Square Serving Platter Tray. Item features an ornate pierced gallery, engraved center with floral decoration throughout, raised on...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Victorian Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Mid Century Era Christofle Silver Plated Serving Tray with Stylized Rope Border
By Christofle
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This vintage serving tray was made by the renowned Christofle company of France in approximately 1965 in a period Mid Century style. The tray is composed of silver plate and has a s...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Art Deco Modernist Silver Plated Comport By ORBRILLE, France, c1930
Located in Devon, England
High styled, 1930's Modernist coupe or comport originating from France and made by the ORBRILLE company and bearing their ‘REX’ trademark, the company was founded in Paris in 1919 by...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Mauro Manetti Swimming Duck Silver Plate Ice Bucket Mid-Century Modern, Italy
Located in Miami, FL
Original Swimming Duck Mauro Manetti silver plate owl ice bucket with metal insulation, made in Italy.
Keeps the ice cubes frozen for a long time as the lid sits tight on the bucket.
Highly favored Collectors Animal Sculptures, Animal Ice Buckets.
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate, Aluminum
Vintage Sheffield Knife and Fork Set
By Sheffield
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Sheffield carving knife and fork set, stainless steel, pink Floraine porcelain handles.
This vintage set of fine Sheffield carving knife and...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Chinoiserie Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Stainless Steel
1960's German Silver Plated Cocktail Shaker by Lutz & Weiss
By Lutz & Weiss
Located in Bath, GB
A really stylish retro / vintage cocktail shaker with the body and the lid to the top having a brushed / bark decoration, a lovely combination together with the mirror finish silver ...
Category
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Very Large English Sheffield Footed Silver Plate High border Serving Tray
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Experience the grandeur of a bygone era with this exquisite Very Large English Sheffield Footed Silver Plate High Border Serving Tray, featuring a captivating Faux Tortoise Shell Inl...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Rare 12-person Nickel Silver cutlery set by Gio Ponti for Calderoni, 1960s
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Rare 12-person alpacca cutlery set designed by Gio Ponti for Argenterie Calderoni, Milan around the 1960s.
The set revisits a cutlery service designed in the 1940s by the same design...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver, Brass
Rogers Antique Styled Silver Plated Engraved Serving Tray
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This silver plated serving tray was made by Rogers of Canada in approximately 1960 in an Edwardian antique style. The tray has a simple series of indentations around the raised outer...
Category
Mid-20th Century Canadian Edwardian Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Copper
Smart Art Deco Cocktail Shaker by Gaskell & Chambers, c.1940
By Gaskell & Chambers Ltd
Located in Bath, GB
A very smart vintage silver plated cocktail shaker, an unusual shape and a good size.
Just returned from our silversmith's workshop, where it has been professionally cleaned and p...
Category
1940s British Art Deco Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage Gorham Silverplate Revere-Style Footed Candy Bowl – Mid-Century Elegance
By Gorham
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This gorgeous vintage silverplate bowl by Gorham offers timeless elegance with a minimalist silhouette and gleaming reflective finish. Crafted mid-century by the iconic Gorham Manufa...
Category
Mid-20th Century American American Colonial Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Mauro Manetti Strawberry Silver Plate Ice Bucket Mid-Century Modern, Italy 1960
Located in Miami, FL
Original Strawberry Mauro Manetti silver plate owl ice bucket with metal insulation, made in Italy.
Keeps the ice cubes frozen for a long time as the lid sits tight on the bucket.
...
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Metal, Aluminum, Silver Plate
Vintage Silver Plated Crystal Pitcher with Glass Chiller
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Beautiful 1940's silver plated hand cut crystal glass juice/punch/liquor pitcher/jug/decanter with ice cube chiller. Center portion screws into lid for ic...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Crystal, Silver Plate
Oval Silver Plate Gallery Tray
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Oval little footed silver plated gallery tray: a perfect serving tray, simply elegant.
Category
Mid-20th Century English Other Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
LB Lg Silver Plate Handled Scalloped Footed Bowl Dish Center Piece
Located in Clifton Forge, VA
This is a fine looking silver plate scalloped large bowl with beautiful handles and feet that would make an impressive center bowl with fruit, flowers or any other decorative items o...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Tommi Parzinger for Dorlyn Silversmiths Brass Coffee & Tea Service
Located in Hanover, MA
Four piece coffee/tea service in solid brass designed by Tommi Parzinger for Dorlyn Silversmiths circa 1950, distributed by Vincent Lippe Co.
This is the earliest version with the distinctively ornate thistle finials on the fitted lids.
Set includes large and small lidded carafes, lidded sugar container and 12" diameter round tray.
All marked: Made by Dorlyn Silversmiths and a conjoined "RP" in which the "R" is reversed.
The 'R' here in the mark probably refers to Otto Rasmussen...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Brass
Antique and Vintage Sheffield and Silverplate
Sheffield silverplate is a durable combination of thin silver sheets and comparatively thicker sheets of copper that was used to create a variety of household objects for years. On 1stDibs, find a collection of antique and vintage Sheffield silverplate and other silverplate for all of your formal dining and entertaining needs.
A cutler named Thomas Boulsover, who worked for a cutlers company in Sheffield, England, accidentally invented what we now call Sheffield silverplate during the 1700s. While working on a decorative knife for a customer — the metalworkers guild had been tasked with repairing its handle — Boulsover mistakenly overheated the silver and noticed that the knife’s layers of silver and copper melded together, creating an impressive bond. This new material felt like silver but was substantially cheaper. It was then used to produce a variety of serveware, candlesticks, buttons, tea sets and more. For families that couldn’t afford the sterling-silver tureens that were used to serve soup in the upper-class English homes at the time, this was good news. They could impress guests with housewares that looked like sterling silver but actually weren't.
Today, just as pewter collectibles and sterling silver are popular with collectors at neighborhood flea markets, antique Sheffield silverplate housewares are sought after for their appearance and rich history. Sheffield silverplate can command high prices on the secondhand market.
Securing yourself a Sheffield silverplate piece is like acquiring a little bit of history. In order to identify authentic Sheffield silverplate, you need to look for one significant attribute of the material. A metalworker had to ensure that all of the exposed edges of a particular piece had to be covered with a rim of silver. If not, the middle layer, which comprised copper, would show through. This would reveal that the piece was not sterling silver.
Don’t just trot out your matching crystal, silver and porcelain once or twice a year. Make a habit of mixing high and low when setting the table. To pair with your everyday contemporary tableware, find antique and vintage Sheffield silverplate on 1stDibs as well as silverplate by goldsmith and tableware companies such as Christofle, Elkington & Co. and more.