Silver & Silver-plated items

A roundup of news and events from around the trade

On September 29 Cottone of Geneseo, New York, will offer the collection of lawyer Hugh Barclay (1932-2021), a former 11-term New York State Senator and US Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador.

Among the highlights of The Premier Sale at St James’s Auctions on September 27 is this Battle of Culloden gold commemorative medal.

Jane Burgett of Dansk Silver is an exhibitor at The Northern Antiques Fair.

Three equestrian silver groups made by different London firms over the space of a century took centre stage in three separate sales in July.

A recent Devin Moisan (25% buyer’s premium) sale was topped by a 1974 Chinese snuff bottle decorated by Wang-Hsi (Xisan).

William Lenthall (1591-1662) was chosen as Speaker of the Houses of Commons at the beginning of the Long Parliament in 1640.

While a few examples survive from the 17th and the very early 18th century, teacups and saucers are a rare form in Georgian silver.

A Queen’s Gallantry Medal in its case of issue awarded to a police constable who helped to catch two violent escaped prisoners sold for £2400 at auction.

The esteem in which British botanist William Lawrence Balls (1882-1960) was held is obvious from lots offered at Norfolk auction house Keys (25% buyer’s premium) on July 26-28.

Gordon Hamme, 65, is the retired co-founder of jewellery trade supplier Exchange Findings and the Festival of Silver, previously known as British Silver Week, which staged exhibitions promoting silversmithing.

I write in response to the letter from Andrew Morris (ATG No 2601) endeavouring to identify the use of the pivoting spoon.

This form of drinking vessel, with handles and lobed edges to the top of the bowl, would have been passed around the table.

Partying through Prohibition, cocktail shakers sum up the spirit of Art Deco

The SS Normandie was both the apogee and the nadir of the Art Deco movement.

Businessman Nigel Ross runs a group of commercial property investment companies and divides his time between homes in England and Florida with business trips to New Zealand and elsewhere.

Classic examples of distinctive porcelain take four-figure sums in Gloucestershire

I wonder if any readers can help identify the purpose of a most unusual silver spoon in my possession.

Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) June 13-14 Fine Interiors sale included a collection of Norwich 17th century silver assembled by one of East Anglia’s best-known families.