26th Aug, 2016 10:30

The Silver Auction

 
  Lot 545
 

UNUSUAL LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL/BALTIC SILVER COVER stamped with mark 'I.B' plus four pictorial marks, several of the marks seen on Swedish silver of this period, possibly from Northern German or the Low Countries, ball finial, engraved with an elaborate hunting scene of a man chasing down a pack of hounds taking down a stag, also engraved with a large coat of arms; together with a matched bowl base, lacking hallmarks (altered to fit cover so hallmarks possibly erased), possibly late 18th/early 19th century english silver, engraved with a heraldic Wyvern, interior shelf rim, on three ball feet, approximately 327g gross, each 11.5cm in diameter

 

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Sold for £95
Estimated at £60 - £100


 
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