William Frederick Chicago Sterling Cocktail Drinks Set, circa 1945-1950

Manufactured by J.S. MacDonald, Batimore, MD (active from 1854-1895) The pitcher measures 13.25 high, 6.50 wide and 6 deep. The two goblets measure 5.25 high. The tray measures 14...

London 1798 - Charles Chesterman This lovely silver wine goblet is in excellent condition with clear hallmarks and the original bright gilding inside the bowl. A fine antique Georgian sterling silver drinking goblet has a plain circular bell shaped form to a waisted pedestal onto a circular foot and base. The upper rim of the goblet is embellished with a bright cut engraved band of fruiting and foliate ornamentation, flanked between undulating borders. This impressive example of Georgian silverware has a gilded interior. The front of this superb goblet is engraved with a vacant cartouche. Made in London in 1798. The dimensions of this fine hand-made antique silver goblet...

J.E Caldwell & Co, Pennsylvania. An incredibly stylish and most likely bespoke Sterling silver 12 piece cocktail or drinks set, featuring a pitcher and tumblers resembling shotgun...

Lebolt added a handwrought silversmithing department to his family's Chicago jewelry store in 1912. Lebolt initially produced bowls, trays, tea sets and other holloware similar to that from the Kalo Shop, and like Randahl, the operation eventually employed a large number of designers and master silversmiths. The silver was sold at Lebolt's storefronts in Chicago, New York, and Paris. They made some of the finest Arts & Crafts hand wrought silver...

An early set of sterling silver coffee or tea set comprising a coffee or tea pot, a cream jug and an open sugar bowl. Designed and made by William Spratling in Taxco, Mexico and date...

Dimensions & weight: Height: 10.75 inches Width: 3-1/2 inches Depth: 5.25 inches Weight: 27.4 troy oz This wonderful sterling silver & wood coffee & tea kettle, made by the famous New York master-silversmith William Lawrence deMatteo, very delicately decorated with the sprouts of young sweet peas. Although at first glance, this object casts thoughts about Art Deco, the unusualness of organic decorative elements in combination with the traditional form certainly speaks of its explicit Mid-Century Modern design. William Lawrence deMatteo (American, 12 October 1923 - 14 May 1988), silversmith and master craftsman, was born in New York City and was the son of Elizabeth Rommelman deMatteo and William Gaitano [Gaetano] deMatteo, an accomplished silversmith who immigrated to the United States from Acciaroli, Salerno, Italy, with his family when he was a boy. William Lawrence deMatteo grew up in suburban Bergenfield, New Jersey, and attended schools in nearby Tenafly, all the while observing and absorbing his father's skillful work. DeMatteo began studying sculpture and fine arts at Columbia University in 1941, but after the United States entered World War II he joined the navy in November 1942 and served in the Pacific theater as a torpedo bomber pilot. On 14 November 1946, in Asbury Park, he married Jayne Walpole, a painter who later co-founded an art gallery. They had three daughters and one son. DeMatteo resumed his apprenticeship with his father and may have continued his studies at Columbia before being recalled to active duty with the navy during the Korean War. He was discharged in 1953. Bill deMatteo, as he was usually known, visited the restored capital of colonial Virginia while he was still in the service and asked to see the silversmith's shop. Told that Colonial Williamsburg had none, he saw an opportunity for himself. Soon after deMatteo left the navy, he returned to Williamsburg and in July 1953 joined the staff as a silversmith. He created the entire silversmith program and was responsible for the James Geddy Silversmith's Shop, where he trained shopkeepers in interpreting craftsmanship to visitors, instructed and supervised apprentices in all kinds of metalworking, and handcrafted reproductions of eighteenth-century silver items for sale in the shop. DeMatteo also revived colonial silversmith James Craig...