| EDWARD SPENCER
(1872-1938) for ARTIFICERS’ GUILD
A rare pair of Arts &
Crafts, silver and glass decanters. One decanter stopper
with a vine leaf finial and golden vine leaf motifs for wine, the
other with a shell finial and golden shell motifs for water. The
heavy glass with random bubble decoration. English.
Circa 1905. Unmarked. Size: Height 28 cm.
Lit.: Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver. Annelies
Krekel-Aalberse.
The Studio 1913. Volume 58 pages 21- 24. See also
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery. Exhibit 1972M120.
An Edward Spencer, James Powell & Sons decanter. |
GILBERT LEIGH MARKS
(1861-1905)
A large silver dish, repoussé decorated in high relief with
the exotic leaves and blossoms of the WARATAH bush which is the New
South Wales state emblem.
Size: Length 44 cm.
Signed ‘Gilbert Marks 1900’. Marked ‘G M’.
Hallmark for London 1900.
Lit.: Simplicity or Splendor. Cheltenham Museum catalogue
1999. |
OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939) & ALWYN CARR (1872-1940)
A pair of Arts & Crafts hammered silver candlesticks
with flame and ropetwist decoration. The circular drip pans with four
supports.
Size: Height 18 cm. Diameter base 11.7 cm . Diameter of drip pan 8.5
cm.
Marked for Ramsden & Carr. Engraved, ‘Omar Ramsden et Alwyn
Carr me fecurunt.’ Hallmarks for London 1914. |
| OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939) & ALWYN CARR (1872-1940)
A lightly hammered, cylindrical silver box, decorated with flowering
branches.
The lid with a final set mother-of-pearl.
Size: Diameter of lid 10.4 cm. base 10.4 cm. Height approximately
9 cm.
Marked for Ramsden & Carr. Hallmarks for London 1907. Sold
|
OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939)
A pair of Arts & Crafts silver plated candlesticks on hexagonal
bases with rope work borders. The circular drip pans
with six supports and grapevine detail with
four cabochon garnets to the central knops.
Size: Height 20.2 cm. Base across 12.7 cm. Unmarked. Circa
1920.
Lit.: Omar Ramsden exhibition catalogue, Birmingham Museum,
1993. Sold
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EDWARD SPENCER (1872-1938)
ARTIFICERS’ GUILD(1901-1942)
A pair of Arts & Crafts,
silver mounted glass decanters.
One vine leaf stopper set amethysts, one set garnets. Heights
28 cm. 26 cm. The heavy glass with ripple decoration.
Marks for Artificers’ Guild and London 1924. One unmarked.
Lit.: The Studio 1913. Vol. 58 pages 21- 24.
See also B’ham Museums & Art Gallery. Ex. 1972M120.
|
|
BIRMINGHAM GUILD OF
HANDICRAFTS Ltd. (Established 1895)
A pair of silver dishes with
original green glass liners.
Size: Diameter 14 cm.
Maker's marks. Hallmarks for Birmingham 1904.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Editor Kenneth Crisp
Jones. |
HENRY
WILSON (1864-1934)
An exceptional, large, Arts & Crafts silver frame, set with lapis
stones to the doors and in tree-like settings. The frame is surmounted
by a a silver figure, the personification of Charity as a woman with
two children, with the word ‘CARITAS’ beneath.
Size: Ht. 43 cm. Width of base, including feet, 33 cm. Depth 21 cm.
Circa 1900.
Lit.: Pre-Raphaelite to Arts & Crafts Jewellery. Charlotte Gere
& Geoffrey C. Munn 1996. Arts & Crafts in Britain & America.
Isabelle Anscombe & Charlotte Gere. 1978.
See also Enamels/Metal page for Henry Wilson
items.
|
BIRMINGHAM GUILD OF
HANDICRAFTS Ltd. (Established 1895)
A silver box with entwined ‘Celtic frieze’. Size:
L.14 cm. W.9 cm. Ht. 7 cm.
Engraved with a presentation inscription of historical interest ‘Robert
Catterson Smith from William Kenrick. Nov. 1914’. Marked for
B'ham Guild of Handicraft. Hallmarks
for B’ham 1902. Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham.
Editor Kenneth Crisp Jones.
|
JOHNSON WAKER &
TOLHURST
A silver mounted glass tankard set with four enamel roundels to the
lid and four enamel roundels to the centre band.
Size: Height 25.5 cm. Base diameter 11cm. Lid diameter 9.5 cm.
Marked for Johnson Walker & Tolhurst, 172, New Bond Street.
Hallmarks for London 1901.
|
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts hammered silver box. The lid decorated with an
abbreviated quotation from Robert
Herrick’s English poem of 1648,
‘Gather ye roses while ye may
old time is still a-flying’. Maker’s
mark and hallmarks for Birmingham 1906.
Size: Length across lid 11.5 cm. Width across lid 7.cm cm. Height
3.2 cm. |
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts hammered silver tea caddy set with oval chrysoprase
stones.
Size: Height 11.5 cm. Diameter of lid 7.5 cm. Mid diameter approximately
8 cm.
Maker’s marks and hallmarks for B’ham 1905.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Editor Kenneth Crisp
Jones.
Sold
|
HAROLD
STABLER (1872-1945) for ADIE BROTHERS
An Art Deco silver candelabrum & candlesticks designed by Harold
Stabler. |
Each hallmarked
for Birmingham 1934.
The candlesticks signed ‘Harold Stabler’and
marked for Adie Brothers. The candelabrum
with unidentified mark.
Approx. ht. of candlesticks 10.6 cm. Base dia. 10.6 cm. Approx.
ht. of candelabrum 29.5 cm. Base dia. 13.5 cm. |
|
JOHN
PAUL COOPER (1869-1933)
A shagreen box with silver mounts. Marked with JPC monogram.
Size: Length 15.3 cm. Width 8.4 cm. Height 5.6 cm. English. Circa
1918.
Lit.: John Paul Cooper. N. Natasha Kuzmanović.
|
| A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver bowl, supported on four legs,
decorated
with a frieze border of four roses and leaves. Ideal for fruit or
flower display.
Marked for A. E. Jones. Hallmarks for B’ham 1908.
Size: Height. 11 cm. Diameter 14.5 cm. |
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver preserve pot and matching
spoon with original glass liner.
The canister with silver floral and wirework decorations.
Maker’s mark. Hallmarks on both canister and spoon for Birmingham
1919.
Size: Approx. height 13.3 cm. Dia. of base 8.6 cm. Length of spoon
13.3 cm. Sold
|
| A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver bowl, supported on four legs,
decorated with .
a frieze border of four roses and thorny branches. Ideal
for fruit or flower display.
Marked for A. E. Jones. Hallmarks for B’ham 1912.
Size: Ht. 13.2 cm. Dia.17.3 cm.
(This bowl is larger than the bowl, number15, illustrated
above.) |
EVALD NIELSEN (1879-1958)
A silver dinner bell. The marine tusk handle formed as a boy on the
back of a dolphin. The bell with a hammered finish and a wave design.
Sold
Marked inside bell ‘Evald Nielsen,
830 S, ANNO 1926’.
The bell rim marked ‘EN
S 830’ Size: Height 16.4 cm.
Dia. at base of bell 9.1 cm.
|
ALFRED
POLLAK (Flourished 1878-1910)
A Jugendstil silver tea caddy with a gilded interior.
Stamped ‘A P’. Marked ‘800’
and with Austrian marks. Austria. Circa 1904.
Sold
Size: L.13 cm. W. 10 cm. Ht. 10.5 cm. Lit.: SILVER A. Krekel-Aalberse.
Illus. page 75
An identical tea caddy in an advert for Connell printed in The
Studio, September 1904.
|
HENRY GEORGE MURPHY
(1884-1939)
A rare set of silver pearl mounted cocktail sticks in the original
fitted case.
Marked for H. G. Murphy and with the Falcon mark. Hallmarks
London 1930.
Size: Length 7.7 cm. Lit.: The Jewellery and
Silver of H. G. Murphy. Paul Atterbury
and John Benjamin. This set is illustrated on page 107. Sold
|
HOLLAND,
ALDWINCKLE and SLATER. Attributed to LATINO MOVIO.
A silver bowl decorated with apple blossom and fruits.
Size : Diameter at centre 19 cm. Height 12.5 cm. Hallmarks for
London 1902.
Marked for Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater.
Latino Movio executed silver in a style similar to that of Gilbert
Marks.
Lit.: Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver. Annelies Krekel-Aalberse.
Sold |
HAROLD
STABLER (1872-1945) for ADIE BROTHERS
A set of three Art Deco silver Candelabra designed by Harold Stabler.
Hallmarked for Birmingham 1936. |
The three branch candelabra marked for
Adie Brothers.
The five branch candelabrum
marked ‘WHM’.
Size:
Height 30 cm.
Width of three branch candelabra 20.5 cm. Sold
|
|
HENRY WILSON (1864-1934)
A copper box with silver decoration. The applied emblematic rondels
depicting creatures, including a snake, fox and an owl. English.
Circa 1900. Size: Width 12 cm. Ht. 11.5 cm .
Depth 9.5 cm. Lit.: Arts & Crafts in Britain & America.
Isabelle Anscombe & Charlotte Gere. The Jewellery and Silver
of H. G. Murphy. Atterbury and Benjamin. |
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts,
hammered silver inkwell with a domed, hinged lid above a tapering
body with six studs to a base with six ball feet. New
interior glass liner.
Size: Base diameter 15 cm. Height 9 cm. Maker’s mark.
Hallmarks for B’ham 1911.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Editor Kenneth Crisp
Jones. |
| A. E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver, four piece tea set.
|
| Marked for
A. E. Jones. Hallmarks for B’ham 1904/1905.
Hot water jug marked for G. L. Connell. Hallmarks for B’ham
1910. Size of teapot across handle 25 cm. Ht. 13.5 cm. Ht. of jug
17 cm. Illus. page 183. The Silversmiths of Birmingham.
|
|
| A. E. JONES (1879-1954)
RUSKIN POTTERY (1898-1935)
A silver, Arts & Crafts, centrepiece bowl. The cylindrical foot
set with four Ruskin ceramic plaques. The base supported
on an ebonised wooden stand.
Marked for A. E. Jones. Hallmarks for B’ham 1903.
Size: Bowl ht. 10.2 cm. Dia. top 15.2 cm. Stand ht. 7.5 cm. Dia.
19 cm. Sold
|
ELKINGTON &
Co.
An impressive, heavy silver, Art Nouveau tea and coffee set with
kettle and stand,
decorated with stylised flowers and wavy bands. The stand with burner.
Maker’s mark. Hallmarks for B’ham 1901. Kettle
B’ham 1903. Size: Total height of kettle on stand 40 cm. Dia.
of base 14 cm. Ht. of teapot 16 cm. Dia. of base 12.7 cm. |
SIBYL
DUNLOP (1889-1968)
An Arts & Crafts hammered silver napkin ring set with three
moonstones of
varying sizes.
Size: Diameter 4.7 cm. Height 3.1 cm.
Marked for Sibyl Dunlop. Hallmarks for London 1963. |
| OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939) |
| A pair of Arts & Crafts
hammered silver dishes on four ball feet. Original fitted case.
Mark for Omar Ramsden and
‘Omar Ramsden Me Fecit’.
Size: Across handles 11 cm. Across dish 7.6 cm.
Height to handle 5 cm. Width 4.6 cm. London
1934. Sold
|
|
ELKINGTON & Co.
An Art Nouveau, silver, four piece tea set decorated with bands of
stylized
flowers and foliage. Maker’s mark. Hallmarks for B’ham
1903.
Ht. of teapot 15.5 cm. Dia. of
base 11.3 cm. Ht. of waterpot 19 cm. Dia. of base 9 cm.
Ht. of sugar 10.5 cm. Dia. of base 9 cm. Ht. of cream jug 10.5 cm.
Dia. of base 6.5 cm. |
| A.
E. JONES (1879- 1954)
A pair of hammered sliver pepperettes perched on
three feet.
Maker’s mark
and hallmarks for Birmingham 1915.
Size: Approximate height 6 cm. Diameter
at rim 4 cm.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Editor Kenneth Crisp
Jones. Sold
|
GRANN og LAGLYE
A set of six silver teaspoons. Each terminal formed as a flower
bud set with one of the following cabochon stones; amethyst, light
green paste, moonstone, garnet, coral, lapis. The
bowl of the spoon hammered to the reverse.
Marks for Grann og Laglye and Dansk Arbejde,
C. F. Heise assay master’s mark and Danish assay marks for
1927-28. Unknown‘AH’ mark.
Size: Approx. length of spoons 11.5 cm. Original
case.
|
ARTIFICERS’
GUILD attributed to EDWARD SPENCER (1872-1938)
An Arts & Crafts, hatpin or pin cushion. The silver ring frame
mounted with
plaques of snakes swallowing their own tails, symbols of eternity,
and plaques of eagles and florets. The borders with
applied wirework. Original wooden base.
Mark for Artificers’ Guild and London 1928. Size: Dia.12.8 cm.
Ring ht. 3.5 cm. Sold |
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
A pair of Arts & Crafts hammered silver sugar casters.
Size: Height 11.5 cm. Diameter of base 4.2 cm.
Marked for Payne & Son. Hallmarks for Birmingham 1913.
Sold
|
ARTIFICERS’
GUILD (1901-1942)
An Arts & Crafts shagreen case with silver mounts.
Size: Width 7 cm. Length 19.5 cm.
Mark for Artificers’ Guild. Hallmarks for London 1922.
Lit.: Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver. Annelies Krekel-Aalberse.
Sold
|
A. E. JONES (1879-1954)
A large Arts & Crafts, hammered silver centrepiece, decorated
with floral rondels and with leaf decorations
to the six points of the hexagonal base.
Size: Approx.
Diameter of bowl 23 cm. Across base 15 cm. Height 24.5 cm.
Maker's mark and hallmarks for Birmingham 1929.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Editor Kenneth Crisp
Jones. |
| KATE
HARRIS for HUTTON & SONS
A silver Arts & Crafts jewellery box with organic, leaf form
decorations to corners and lid. The interior velvet lined.
Size: L. 13 cm. W. 10 cm. Ht. 6.5 cm.
Maker’s mark. Hallmarks for London 1904.
Lit.: A Marriage of Art and Commerce. Stephen Pudney. Silver
Society Journal.Sold
|
GEORG
ADAM SCHEIDT
A small Art Nouveau silver box.
Size: 5 cm. x 5 cm. Height 1.5 cm
Marked for Georg Adam Scheidt. Austrian silver mark. Circa 1900.
Sold
|
A.
E. JONES (1879- 1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver gravy or sauceboat.
Mark for A. E. Jones. Hallmarks for B’ham 1924. Size: Length
17 cm. Height 10 cm.
Lit. : The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Kenneth Crisp
Jones.
A pair also available marked for A. E. Jones and dated B’ham
1924.
|
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver preserve pot with glass liner
and spoon.
The canister decorated with silver floral and wirework decorations.
Marks: Canister marked for Payne & Son. Hallmarks for B’ham
1910. Spoon marked ‘AEJ’. Hallmarks for B’ham 1923.
Height approx. 12.5 cm. Sold
|
ARTIFICERS’
GUILD (1901-1942)
A set of six Arts & Crafts
silver teaspoons with wirework decoration and shell terminals.
Unmarked. Circa 1908.
Size: Approx. length of spoons 9.4 cm. Length of bowl of spoon 2.4
cm. Width 2 cm.
The original fitted case marked to the silk,
‘THE ARTIFICERS' GUILD LTD.
9 MADDOX STREET LONDON W ’.
Sold
|
ARTIFICERS’
GUILD (1901-1942)
A set of twelve Arts &
Crafts silver teaspoons with circular terminals depicting Viking ships
in full sail. Size: Approx length of spoons 11.8 cm.
Marked for Artificers' Guild Ltd.
Hallmarks for London 1912.
The original fitted case marked
to the silk, ‘THE ARTIFICERS' GUILD
LTD.
4 CONDUIT STREET LONDON W ’. |
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