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Sterling Silver For Sale
Period: Early 1900s
Period: 1840s
Pair Of Antique Vienna Biedermeier Silver Candle Holders, Dated 1844
Located in Vienna, AT
Two festive Biedermeier silver candlesticks on a round, stepped domed stand with a smooth, baluster-shaped shaft, beaded rings decorated with flowers and rocaille in relief, vase-sha...
Category
1840s Austrian Biedermeier Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Viennese Art Nouveau Silver Centerpiece With Original Glass Bowl, Around 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant silver centerpiece on a round, multi-stepped curved base with four square rocaille feet with putti heads in relief, finely chased shell and floral decoration, baluster-shaped...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Pair Of Art Nouveau Carafes With Silver Mount by Barker Brothers Birmingham 1901
Located in Vienna, AT
Two Edward VII clear glass carafes with a conical body, elaborate steinel and octagonal cut on the outer wall, finely radiated base star, smooth silver mount with beak spout and eleg...
Category
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
German Silver Gilt Minaudière Louis Kuppenheim
Located in Newark, England
The minaudière of rectangular form with curved corners features a repousse monkey which humorously goes through the case with the front side of the monkey on the cover and the rear side of the monkey on the back. The exterior of the case is gilded Silver with cabochon Sapphires and a top carry loop. To the left of the top a second loop contains the original pencil which pulls out for taking notes upon the ivorine notepad within. The interior of the case features several compartments which open via the Sapphire tabs, the left side contains two smaller compartments while the right side features a bevel edged mirror with an ivorine notepad to the reverse and a spring loaded tab to the compartment. The case is hallmarked in several locations with the London ‘omega’ import mark (1906-1998), the import Silversmiths mark Gresham Barber & Co and is dated 1907. Although the minaudière does not bear the original makers hallmark we firmly attribute the case to Louis Kuppenheim a renowned German Silversmith who made designs matching this minaudière.
Louis Kuppenheim (1824-1889)was founded in 1854 together with Heinrich Witzemann they were located in Pforzheim, southwestern Germany and is known as the gateway to the Black Forest. In 1857 Kuppenheim moved forward as a solo business without his partner and moved to Durlacher Straße 1, Old Town street in Pforzheim. Upon the death of Louis Kuppenheim in 1889 3 of his 6 children (Albert, Hugo and Moritz) took over running the company and in 1900 at the Universal Exhibition in Paris the firm won a gold medal for a paper knife. In the same year the company opened the first store in the Rue de Richelieu 67 in Paris.
In the 1900s Hans Christiansen designed some silver parts and pieces of jewellery, which were made by the Manufacture Kuppenheim. Christiansen was an important Art Nouveau painter and a member of the Darmstadt artists’ colony. In 1906 Albert, Hugo and Moritz convert the inherited jewellery factory into a modern gold and silverware fabrication and one year later relocated to 69 Durocher Street. Over the next 30 years the company expanded their business with mechanical workshops for gold and silver along with more machinery along with the death of Albert Kuppenheim and Ludwig (another son of Louis) taking over the company. After the war broke out in 1939 the company went into liquidation ending its 82 year history. During the heyday of the company over 200 people were employed by Louis Kuppenheim making it one of the most important employers in the jewellery city of Pforzheim.
In the more than eighty years of production some 100,000 pieces left the company. Kuppenheim made many items in small series, for example boxes and minaudières (women’s fashion accessory, generally considered a jewellery piece, intended to substitute for an evening bag. A case with compartments, it allows storage for several items in a small space, such as a makeup compact, lipstick, watch, reading glasses, or keys) and compacts and cigarette cases...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver
20th Century Japanese Silver Cocktail Shaker & Beakers by Samurai Shokai c.1900
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 20th Century Japanese solid silver cocktail shaker and six beakers. Each tapered body features intricate dragon motifs adorning a spot hammered background. Hallmarked J...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Japonisme Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Antique 20th Century Edwardian Solid Silver Horse Stirrup Cup by Elkington & Co
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early-20th Century Victorian solid silver stirrup cup, the head realistically cast as a horses head, with ears pricked, eyes wide open, plain collar and richly gilt interior....
Category
Early 1900s British Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
antique silver jug
Located in Perth, GB
Antique silver jug 1900 birming wt. 375 gr approximately
Category
Early 1900s English Victorian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
'Apostle' Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Tea Spoons & Tongs, London 1905
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1905 by William Hutton & Sons, this charming set of 12 Antique Sterling Silver Tea Spoons & Matching Tongs, ...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Salver
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver salver by J. E. Caldwell of Philadelphia.
This lovely antique piece is oval shaped and has a row of beads going aroun...
Category
1840s American Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Continental Rococo Style Silver Plate & Mirrored Plateau, early 20th century
Located in Atlanta, GA
Of classical Rococo form with a scalloped edges, retaining original mirror plate, raised on small feet
Category
Early 1900s European Rococo Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Antique Sterling Silver Spanish Snuff Pill Box Circa 1900
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful heavy set antique Spanish sterling silver pill / snuff box, bearing the Spanish 5 pointed star for sterling silver with makers mark Ucc, Circa 1900 in date.
It ...
Category
Early 1900s Spanish Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Italian Silver Cherub Chariot Salt Circa 1900
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful antique Italian .800 silver cherub horse drawn chariot salt, Circa 1900 in date.
Will look amazing on your dining table.
Condition:
In excellent condition with ...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Tiffany Oyster Server
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver master oyster server in the “Florentine” pattern by the world renowned Tiffany & Company. The handle has a beautifully decorated pattern and the b...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
A set of 4 Four brass & ore candlesticks, Golden Floral Bronze Candle Holders
Located in Hampshire, GB
A set of 4 Four brass & ore candlesticks, Golden Floral Bronze Candle Holders
Highly collectable and valuable.
Measures: H x W x D: 21, 12 cm.
Swe...
Category
Early 1900s Swedish Hollywood Regency Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf, Sterling Silver, Silver, Gold Plate
Puiforcat (Hermes) - 170pc. French Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Flatware Set
By Odiot
Located in Wilmington, DE
Direct from Paris, a Magnificent 170pc. 950 Sterling Silver Art Nouveau Flatware Set with 8 Serving Pieces by the World's Premier French Silversmith "Puiforcat...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Vanity Jar
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is an Art Nouveau sterling silver and crystal vanity jar. Very popular in Victorian times and into the twentieth century, these jars were used for travel by women of m...
Category
Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Antique Spanish Silver Pill Snuff Box Circa 1900
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful heavy set antique Spanish sterling silver pill / snuff box, bearing the Spanish 5 pointed star for sterling silver with makers mark ERA, Circa 1900 in date.
It ...
Category
Early 1900s Spanish Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Art Nouveau Silver Jardinière With Cut Glass Liner, Theodor Müller Germany c1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Festive solid silver vessel in the shape of a large oval footed bowl, divided and segmented by vertical folds, the base set off by a constriction, projecting, wavy, lobed cut-out foo...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Antique Sterling Silver Fruit Set 24 Knives Forks Allen Darwin Sheffield Asprey
By Allen & Darwin Silver 1, Asprey & Garrard Limited
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique cased sterling silver fruit/dessert service for 12 people, made by Allen & Darwin, Sheffield & retailed by Asprey London, dated 1902. Silver weight 34 oz (964 grams)
T...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Gallery Tray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
We are thrilled to offer this sterling silver gallery tray made by Roden Brothers if Toronto, Canada. The center is a dark wood with a glass protecting it from scratches. Around the ...
Category
Early 1900s Canadian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Charles Horner Silver Pendant with Enamel Chester 1909
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Charles Horner Arts and Crafts silver and enamel pendant
Date : Hallmarked in Chester in 1909 for Charles Horner
Period : Edward VII
Origin : Chester, England
Decoration : ...
Category
Early 1900s British Arts and Crafts Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Pair of Howard Sterling Silver Elaborate Candlesticks
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This pair of elaborate sterling silver candlesticks will set the table with many options for centerpieces. The sophisticated decoration of leaves and swirling silver embellish the ba...
Category
Early 1900s American Rococo Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Art Nouveau Ring Tray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
We are proud to offer this sterling silver Art Nouveau ring tray by Gorham Silversmiths of Providence, Rhode Island. It has a scalloped rim with aesthetic work around the edge. The...
Category
Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Fiddle Pattern Ladle London 1841
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Sterling Silver Fiddle Pattern Ladle
Date : Hallmarked in London 1841 For William Eaton
Period : Victoria
Origin : London
Decoration : Engraved Dragon rampant crest on the ...
Category
1840s British Victorian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Viennese Silver & Glass Art Nouveau Table Étagère by Würbel & Szokally, Ca. 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent original Viennese Art Nouveau centerpiece:
Two-tiered, silver table étagère on a large, domed stand richly decorated with volutes and panels on four rocaille feet, baluster...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Silver Art Nouveau Pair of Centrepieces Holders Bruckmann and Sons, Germany 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Silver German pair of centrepieces / centerpieces made by Bruckmann & Sons (Germany).
Art Nouveau (made circa 1900)
Silver 800
branded by German Crescent with Crown
Manufactory:
Eagle Mark of Bruckmann & Soehne (= SONS), Heilbronn (Germany)
Peter Bruckmann (1865-1937) was the first Chairman of the Deutscher Werkbund (founded 1907).
Size:
Height 18.5 cm ( 7.28 inches)
Width 22.5 cm ( 8.85 inches)
Depth 19.5 cm ( 7.67 inches)
Total weight: 940 grams / 33.08 OZ / 30.22 troy ounces
Specifications:
Excellently manufactured pair of silver centrepieces / stands / holders:
Each of the reticulated oval bowls are based on four slim as well as concave supports which are attached to round base: Edge of these bases is of reticulated type, too. The bowls' corners are decorated with lockets framed...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Chinese Export Silver Tea Cup and Saucer
Located in London, GB
A Chinese Export Silver Tea Cup and Saucer made in Hong Kong around 1900. The cup embossed and chased with birds and bamboo against a matte background, ...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Chinese Export Silver Teaset
Located in London, GB
Chinese Export Silver 3-piece Teaset, circa 1920, of pumpkin form, decorated with pumpkin vine and leaves on each piece, and a large impressive cicada on the teapot. The finial on th...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Chinese Export Silver Tea Cup and Saucer
Located in London, GB
A Chinese Export Silver Tea Cup and Saucer embossed and chased with bamboo against a matte background. The cup has a bamboo-form handle and sits on a pl...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
John Grinsell & Sons Birmingham Sterling Crystal Match Striker Holder Circa 1900
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Antique English crystal match striker with sterling silver rim by John Grinsell & Sons . Good antique condition with some small signs of age and use, a few small chips to the glass a...
Category
Early 1900s British Late Victorian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Carving Set
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver carving fork and knife in the “Meadow Rose” pattern by Wallace Silversmiths, first introduced in 1907. It has clusters of flowers on the handle an...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
1900's Les Cinq Fleurs Reed and Barton "Peony" Sterling Silver Lemon Fork
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Antique 7" Sterling Silver Lemon Fork "Les Cinq Fleurs" ( Peony Style) by Reed & Barton 1900's
7" in length x 2"Wide
Category
Early 1900s North American Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Sugar Caster
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique Edwardian English sterling silver sugar caster, an addition to our silver teaware collection.
This fine antique Edwardian sterling silver sugar caster has a baluster form onto a circular domed spreading foot.
The upper and lower portions of this piece are embellished with embossed and chased bead and scroll decoration accenting concave bordered, fluted decoration all in a spiral design.
The sugar caster retains the original hallmarked screw fit cover, embellished with pierced decoration incorporating chased and embossed bead and scroll decoration, the screw fit attachment indicates the fine quality of this piece.
The cover is further ornamented with a gadroon decorated border to the rim and is surmounted by a fine and impressive scroll decorated shaped baluster style finial.
The foot of this piece is embellished with embossed and chased stylized fluted decoration in a spiral design.
Condition
This antique sugar caster...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Antique Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Photo Frame Dated 20th Century
Located in London, GB
A superb Art Nouveau sterling silver photograph frame by James Deakin & Sons, Chester, 1905
Beautifully portrait frame decorated with relief floral, foliate and scroll decoration h...
Category
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
3-Piece Silver Art Nouveau Centerpiece With Blue Glass Inserts, France Ca 1905
Located in Vienna, AT
Two elegant, festive silver centerpieces on a round, stepped base, bordered by a garland of leaves with a cross band on the lower rim and an egg-bar frieze on the upper rim, on top a...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Set of 6 "King" Pattern Sterling Silver Demitasse Spoons, Circa 1900
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Set of 6 "King" pattern sterling silver demitasse spoons by Dominick & Haff, circa 1900. Monograms: "W" on 5 & "G" on 1. 2.0 troy oz.
4 3/8" x 7/8".
Whitehall Antiques is a family b...
Category
Early 1900s American Late Victorian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
1906 Set of Seven King Pattern Sterling Silver Knives by Dominick & Haff
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Set of 7 King pattern sterling silver hollow handle luncheon knives by Dominick & Haff, 1906. HHW monogram, engraved 1906 obverse.
8 3/8" x 3/4".
Whitehall Antiques is a family busi...
Category
Early 1900s American Aesthetic Movement Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
The ‘Entente Cordial’ champagne cooler for the British Motor Boat Club, 1905
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
The ‘Entente Cordial’ silver champagne cooler for the British Motor Boat Club, 1905. This deep cylindrical bowl by Charles Townley and John Thomas is of heavy gauge with a raised circular foot, two acanthus scroll handles and cut-card acanthus leaves around the base. The inscription on the silver reads ‘The “Entente Cordial” Cup Presented to the British Motor Boat Club by Mrs Walker Munroe, 1905, won by 1905 Aug 7 “Napier II” J. Scott Montagu, Lionel de Rothschild, 1906 Aug 6 ‘Yarrow Napier’ Lionel de Rothschild.’ Assayed for Charles Townley and John Thomas, London 1904, retailed by F B Thomas & Co.
Provenance: Lionel de Rothschild, Exbury and J Scott Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
Edmund de Rothschild, Exbury.
The ‘Entente Cordiale Cup’ was the prize at the club’s race meeting at Burnham on Crouch in August 1905 in honour of a visit from the French Navy. Lionel and John had great success in the new Napier II and Achillée millefeuille Napier motor boats. The Napier II was fitted with the largest six-cylinder engine ever built by Selwyn Edge. In 1905 the pair won a 35 mile race across the Arcachon basin, France, in a time of 2 hours, 2 minutes, 26 seconds. The following year they broke Dorothy Levitt’s world water speed record at 28.8 knots and in 1907 won the prestigious ‘Perla del Mediterraneo’ on Lionel’s boat, the ‘Flying Fish’. Selwyn Francis Edge (1868–1940) was a British entrepreneur who successfully became ‘a motor car, cycle, launch, and flying machine manufacturer’. He built and raced de Dion...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Sterling Silver Tiffany Compote
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver compote manufactured by the world renowned Tiffany & Company. It has a scalloped rim — both on top and on the base with flower’s interspersed. Th...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
1904 Set of 12 Sterling Silver Fruit Spoons in "King George" by Gorham
By Gorham
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Set of 12 sterling silver fruit or orange spoons,"King George" pattern, dated 1904, by Gorham. A rare & elegant set with gilt, winged bowls. Monograme JLS(?) & 1904 obverse. Marked: ...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique, Silver Hip Flask, Birmingham 1906, Unusual Shape.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Very Small Silver Hip Flask By Edward Foligne Braham.
A beautiful and unusually small Edwardian silver hip flask. The shaped flask has a screw top lid, a...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Commonwealth Engraved by Watson Sterling Silver Flatware Set Service 32 pcs Bow
Located in Big Bend, WI
Gorgeous Commonwealth Engraved by Watson, c1908, with bright-cut bow and leaf design sterling silver Flatware set, 32 pieces. This set includes:
8 Regular Knives, 8 7/8"
8 Regular F...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Art Nouveau Silver Jardinière With Waved Glass Liner Wilhelm Binder Germany 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant silver jardinière of elliptical base form on four flared feet with volute bond, downwardly flaring smooth wall with delicate ribbed band at the lower rim, constriction at the...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Sterling Silver Sauce Bowl
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver sauce-bowl and spoon in the Strasbourg pattern by Gorham Silversmiths. The Strasbourg pattern is known for its scalloped design as seen around the...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Art Nouveau Silver Jardinière In Navette Form, Koch & Bergfeld Germany, Ca 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant silver jardinière over ground plan in boat shape standing on four downward projecting feet with leaf decor, wall with regular
circumferential vertical lamellae, on front and...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Sterling Silver Crab Tobacco Container, Hallmarked London 1902
Located in London, GB
A wonderful silver container modelled as a crab that was originally made to carry tobacco. Made to a registered design with maker's mark for Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders & James Fra...
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Art Nouveau Silver Centerpiece With Rams Heads And Blue Glass Insert, Ca 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant, simple Art Nouveau silver jardinière on an elliptical ground plan, the wall generously openworked in the form of two perforated bands running around the upper and lower edges of the vessel, connected by four slender, pyramid-shaped uprights ending in low feet, which divide the wall into four segments, on the front and back oval panels, embedded on bundles of feather leaves and crowned with bows, which at the same time serve as a connection to the leaf festoons surrounding the vessel, rams' heads applied lengthwise opposite each other on the outside, which can also serve as handles.
Cobalt blue glass insert with a curved cut on the upper edge.
Dimensions:
height: 13,0 cm / 5.11 in
width: 35,0 cm / 13.77 in
depth: 22,5 cm / 8.85 in
silver weight: 840 grams / 27.00 troy oz
Hallmarks:
- 830 - fineness, North European standard
- Crowned leopard head - most probably for DINGELDEIN BROTHERS, Hanau Germany
founded in 1868 by brothers Friedrich Otto (ca. 1838-1901) and Freidrich Wilhelm (ca. 1838-1910) Dingeldein. Friedrich Otto's son August Ernst Dingeldein (1874-1962) was their successor, and married Margarethe Kurz...
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Early 1900s Scandinavian Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Art Nouveau Silver Jardinière, Bruckmann & Sons for Lazarus Posen Germany c 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant, festive silver vessel in wide oval base form with four projecting volute feet, on the front and back center asymmetrical panels holding together the surrounding leaf, flower...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Art Nouveau Silver Jardinière With Cut Glass Liner, Wilhelm Binder Germany c1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant silver jardinière in elliptical basic form on four lion paw feet with volute attachment, straight vertical wall with regular openings in the form of rhythmically staggered co...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Set of 6 Unusual Figural Demitasse Spoons, Animal Hooves
Located in Riverdale, NY
Set of 6 Unusual Figural Demitasse Spoons from the turn of the 20th Century with animal hoof handles. Beautifully detailed with twisted stem and vermeil bowls...
Category
Early 1900s German Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Edwardian Sterling Silver Rabbit Pin Cushion
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Edwardian pin cushion modelled in the form of a rabbit; an addition to our animal related silverware collection.
This exceptional, fine and impressive antique Edwardian cast sterling silver pin cushion...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Nathaniel Mills Sterling SIlver Snuff Box Birmingham 1843
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Sterling silver snuff box
Date : Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1843 for Nathaniel Mills
Period : Victoria
Origin : Birmingham, England
Decoration : Embellished with tooled cr...
Category
1840s British Victorian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Edward Smith Sterling Silver Card Case with Engraved Castle Birmingham 1844
By Edward Smith
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Edward Smith card case
Date : Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1844 for Edward Smith
Period : Victoria
Origin : Birmingham England
Decoration : Embellished with machined decorat...
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1840s British Victorian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Gorham 1900 Sterling Silver Mug and Underplate in Art Nouveau Martele Style
By Gorham
Located in New York, NY
Gorham sterling silver mug and underplate from 1900, in Art Nouveau style. The style, with exquisite, flowing floral motifs, and craftsmanship are reminiscent of the great Martele li...
Category
Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Pair Of 3-Flame Art Nouveau Silver Candleholders With Putti, Germany, Ca 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Two decorative, playful Art Nouveau candleholders on a high-towered rocaille and volute base with lattice-like pierced shells, standing on four rocaille feet in a square arrangement,...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Edwardian Sterling Silver Teddy Bear Pepper
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare antique Edwardian English sterling silver teddy bear pepper; an addition to our range of silver novelty items.
This exceptional and rare an...
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Early 1900s English Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Gorham Shell Dolphin Dish
By Gorham
Located in Summerland, CA
Lovely rare sterling silver dish on stand. Gold wash shell dish sits on a decorative dolphin base stand. Rare dish. made by Gorham in early 1900s.
Excellent condition
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Edwardian Sterling Silver Budgerigar Pepper Shakers
By George Bedingham
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, pair of antique Edwardian English cast sterling silver pepper shakers modelled in the form of budgerigars; an addition to our collectable silver ...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Vintage, New and Antique Sterling Silver
Dining and entertaining changed drastically when we began to set our tables with sterling silver for holiday gatherings, wedding receptions, engagement parties and, in some of today’s homes, everyday meals.
Often called the “Queen of metals,” silver has been universally adored for thousands of years. It is easy to see why it has always been sought after: It is durable, strong and beautiful. (Louis XIV had tables made entirely of silver.) Sterling silver is an alloy that is made of 92.5 percent silver — the “925” stamp that identifies sterling-silver jewelry refers to this number. The other 7.5 percent in sterling silver is typically sourced from copper.
Neoclassical-style sterling-silver goods in Europe gained popularity in the late 18th century — a taste for sterling-silver tableware as well as tea sets had taken shape — while in the United States, beginning in the 19th century, preparing the dinner table with sterling-silver flatware had become somewhat of a standard practice. Indeed, owning lots of silver goods during the Victorian era was a big deal. Back then, displaying fine silver at home was a status symbol for middle-class American families. And this domestic silver craze meant great profitability for legendary silversmith manufacturers such as Reed & Barton, Gorham Manufacturing Company and the International Silver Company, which was incorporated in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1898, a major hub of silver manufacturing nicknamed “Silver City.”
Today, special occasions might call for ceremonial silver designed by Tiffany & Co. or the seductive sterling-silver cutlery from remarkable Danish silversmith Georg Jensen, but there really doesn’t have to be an event on the calendar to trot out your finest tableware.
Event- and wedding-planning company maestro Tara Guérard says that some “investment pieces,” such as this widely enamored alloy, should see everyday use, and we’re inclined to agree.
“Sterling-silver flatware is a must-have that you can use every single day, even to eat cereal,” she says. “Personally, I want a sterling-silver goblet set for 12 to 20; I would use them every time I had a dinner party. Ultimately, there are no criteria for buying vintage pieces: Buy what you love, and make it work.”
Whether you’re thinking “ceremonial” or “cereal,” browse a versatile collection of vintage, new and antique sterling-silver wares on 1stDibs today.
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