Antique Miniature Sterling Silver Pipe, Churchwarden Style

A fantastic and rare, novelty, antique sterling silver tobacco tin or box. It has been designed as an empty tin can, very realistically detailed and similar in size to a regular f...

A beautiful antique sterling silver Creamer or milk jug. This sweet antique Creamer stands on three paw feet and has a squat, pot be...

An attractive antique sterling silver napkin ring. It is a sleek high polished napkin ring. The body is a cylindrical shape with a slight rim that has a detailed millegrain edging top and bottom. The monogram to the front has been hand engraved and reads EAL. It is fully hallmarked for sterling silver, Birmingham assay office, 1917. A lovely little piece of vintage dining room decor...

An attractive antique sterling silver napkin ring. It is a sleek high polished napkin ring with a hexagonal shape. It has a slight raised rim and a monogram to the front. The monogram has been hand engraved and reads JL. It is fully hallmarked for sterling silver but the marks are worn, it is a heavy substantial piece. A lovely little piece of vintage dining room decor...

A stylish Antique Art Deco era sterling silver lamp form table lighter. An unusual genie style lamp curved at both ends with an elongated boat shape. It has a smooth polished finis...

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...

Baroque style shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving interspersed with spaces with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and a beautiful h...

A Wonderful and most unusual miniature Champagne / wine / liquor bottle made from English crystal and handcut to resemble basket weave, outstanding work and without damage. The st...

A magnificent, fine and impressive antique George III English sterling silver samovar made in the Regency style, an addition to our Geo...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George VI English sterling silver christening mug in the Art Deco style; an addition to our ...

Rectangular table box with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with a beautiful hand-engraved and fire-enamelled frame and in the center a beautiful hand painted miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres "Odalisque with slave". Dimensions cm. 9.5 x 12.3 x 3.3. Weight gr. 671. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1979 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C. Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions. It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books. Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items. hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques. The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds: 1) Fire enamel. 2) Water tempera on an ivory plate. 3) Painted on mother-of-pearl. Fire enameled miniatures: On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature...

An exceptional, fine, and impressive, antique 18th century Dutch silver pipe tamper tool / tongue scraper; an addition to our smoking related silverware collection This exceptional antique Dutch silver pipe tamper tool has a faceted handpiece with a tongue scraper to the terminal. The handpiece is embellished with cast and applied festoon decoration to either side, in addition to an engraved decoration. The plain oval antique tongue...