Silver & Silver-plated items

The earliest records of the silversmithing on the Tyne date from 1249.

A sterling silver scale model of the Lockheed TriStar aircraft was the top lot at Kinghams’ (25% buyer’s premium) Silver and Objects of Vertu sale in the Cotswolds.

This extraordinary Tiffany & Co. silver and mixed metal vase has many of the characteristics of the firm’s chief designer and director of its silver works, Edward Chandler Moore (1827-91).

Figural novelty silver-mounted glass claret jugs are a favourite collectable and some of the most popular examples are fashioned as animals.

The vast majority of Georgian-era Channel Islands silver baluster mugs are of a pint or half-pint capacity.

Single-owner collection forms biggest dispersal of mustard pots at auction for many years

By all accounts, the Bulgarian prince and later Tsar Ferdinand I was a passionate railway enthusiast.

The small German beakers known as monatsbecher (‘month beakers’) were made in sets of a dozen: one for each month of the year.

While mustard pots and caddy spoons made up much of the silver smallwork in Anderson & Garland’s (25% buyer’s premium) silver sale on November 28 (see ATG No 2619), it did also contain one notable example of a Dutch miniature.

Small is considered beautiful in many sectors but increasingly so when it comes to collecting traditional antiques with space often at a premium.

Chiswick Auctions’ most successful silver sale to date on October 11 included a George II teapot of American colonial interest.

The forthcoming sale of a collection of around 100 silver mustard pots in Newcastle highlights the connection between the northeast and the rise of the commercial trade in English mustard

With her art collection dispersed through recent auction activity at Sotheby’s, Freeman’s and Toomey & Co, it is now time for the late Angela Gross Folk’s silver collection to come to market.

The September 24 sale at Fine Estate, Inc (23% buyer’s premium) in San Rafael, California, included this example of Anglo-Indian silver.

The auction record for a pair of chairs was broken twice as part of Christie’s Rothschild family auction series in New York.

This colonial-era Indian silver horse racing trophy is marked for Peter Orr and Sons of Madras.

Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) had held its inaugural Silver & Objects of Vertu sale on September 8.