April 26, 2025: Spring Fine & Decorative Arts - Day 3
Jeffrey S. Evans & Assoc., Inc. info@jeffreysevans.com
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BRITISH GEORGIAN AND VICTORIAN STERLING SILVER SPOONS AND TONGS, LOT OF SEVEN, some pieces with personalized engravings to handles; comprising a pair of sugar tongs with "RM" maker's mark, possibly for Richard Meach of London, having ornate openwork handles and shell grips; a salt spoon with backwards-tipped fiddle handle by Sarah & John William Blake of London with 1816 date mark; three pieces with backwards-tipped fiddle handles by Henry Holland of London consisting of two salt spoons with 1845 and 1879 date marks, and an egg spoon with 1874 date mark; a salt spoon by a London maker lacking maker's mark with 1795 date mark; a Scottish salt spoon probably by John Wilkie of Edinburgh with 1853 date mark having a "King's" pattern handle. Most with maker's marks, each except tongs having three or four hallmarks of a lion passant or thistle for sterling fineness, a city mark, a date mark, and/or a King George III or Queen Victoria duty mark, tongs with a lion passant hallmark. Together with an English sterling silver small cocktail, or other, fork by Viner's Ltd. of Sheffield, having maker's mark and three hallmarks of a lion passant, a crown city mark, and an "r" date mark for 1934. Total weight: 4.090 ozt. Eight pieces total. Tongs probably circa 1770; spoons late 18th/19th century. 3 1/4" to 5 1/2" LOA.
Most in very good overall condition with some wear, surface scratches, and other imperfections including nicks, slight bending, one or a few minute/small dents, and/or slight worn spots to raised decoration / engraving; tongs with repairs to handles; Sarah & John William Blake salt spoon with a short split to bowl at terminal of handle.
The estate collection of Larry and Virginia C. Pierson, College Station, TX.
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