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Lot# 3001

Towle King Richard Pattern Sterling Silver Flatware Set

Comprising 12 place knives, 12 butter spreaders, 12 place forks, 12 salad forks, 15 teaspoons, 7 bouillon spoons, 1 olive fork, 1 master butter knife, 1 salad serving fork and 1 spoon, 1 cake server, 3 carving knives of various size, 2 carving forks of various size, 1 cheese knife, 1 cheese server. (82 pieces total).
Approximate weighable silver: 2,482 grams..
Condition: Loss to salad server pair wood
With file style case.

Estimate: $1200 - $1800

Lot# 3002

Gorham King Edward Pattern Sterling Silver Flatware Set

Comprising 12 place knives, 12 butter spreaders, 12 place forks, 12 salad forks, 25 teaspoons, 12 bouillon spoons, 3 tablespoons, 1 sugar spoon, 1 olive fork, 1 carving knife, 1 carving fork. (92 pieces total).
Approximate weighable silver: 2,726 grams..
Condition: Light wear overall.
Canteen included.

Estimate: $1500 - $2000

Lot# 3003

Towle Old Colonial Pattern Sterling Silver Flatware Set

Comprising 14 place knives, 14 place forks, 14 salad forks, 7 seafood forks, 21 teaspoons, 2 oval soup spoons, 1 tablespoon, 1 gravy ladle, 1 cream ladle, 1 cake server, 1 salad serving fork, 1 salad serving spoon, 1 serving spoon with 8 additional unassociated sterling flatware pieces. (86 pieces total).
Approximate weighable silver: 2,674 grams..
Condition: Light wear overall.

Estimate: $1500 - $2000

Lot# 3004

Towle and Oneida Sterling Silver Flatware

Oneida Virginian pattern comprising 8 place knives, 12 butter spreaders, 8 place forks, 7 salad forks, 3 seafood forks, 1 teaspoon, 2 bouillon spoons, 2 tablespoons, 1 gravy ladle Towle Rambler Rose pattern comprising 6 place knives, 1 butter spreader, 6 place forks, 5 salad forks, 13 teaspoons, 9 bouillon spoons, 2 serving forks, 1 tomato server, 1 gravy ladle, 1 sugar spoon, 2 master butter knives 1 unassociated lid. (92 pieces total).
Approximate weighable silver: 2,782 grams..
Condition: Some wear throughout.

Estimate: $1500 - $2500

Towle and Oneida Sterling Silver Flatware

Lot# 3004

Estimate: $1500 - $2500

Lot# 3005

Wallace Grande Baroque Sterling Silver Flatware Set

Comprising 11 place knives, 12 butter spreaders, 13 place forks, 13 salad forks, 8 seafood forks, 21 teaspoons, 13 bouillon spoons, 1 sugar spoon, 1 master butter spreader, 1 smaller place fork, 1 unassociated napkin ring with monogram. (95 pieces total).
Approximate weighable silver: 3,238 grams..
Condition: Light wear overall.
Canteen included.

Estimate: $2000 - $3000

Wallace Grande Baroque Sterling Silver Flatware Set

Lot# 3005

Estimate: $2000 - $3000

Lot# 3006

International and Gorham Fiddle Sterling Flatware

Comprising 23 place knives, 10 butter spreaders, 23 place forks, 21 salad forks with 6 having variation in tines, 8 oval soup spoons, 12 bouillon spoons, 15 place spoons, 10 teaspoons, 12 smaller spoons, 1 carving knife, 1 carving fork all with R monograms. (136 pieces total).
With various Gorham and International marks.
Approximate weighable silver: 4,924 grams..
Condition: Some wear and evidence of use.

Estimate: $2500 - $3000

International and Gorham Fiddle Sterling Flatware

Lot# 3006

Estimate: $2500 - $3000

Lot# 3007

Large Collection of Sterling and Other Souvenir Spoons

Most pieces are souvenir spoons, with some additional pieces 94 with sterling marks, 5 with 800 or coin marks, 7 unmarked or silver-plated, one Cellini Craft piece included.
Approximate weighable silver: 1,590 grams..
Condition: Tarnish and wear throughout.

Estimate: $800 - $1200

Lot# 3008

Sterling Silver Lighter Holder

Cylindrical lighter holder with affixed star and flower symbol.
Dimensions: Height 3 1/4 inches, diameter1 1/4 inches.
Condition: Very good condition, with some minor scratches to surface.

Estimate: $800 - $1200

Sterling Silver Lighter Holder

Lot# 3008

Estimate: $800 - $1200

Lot# 3009

Sterling Hollowware and Faux Faberge Desk Items

Comprising four weighted compotes of various size, slender weighted bud vase, weighted trumpet vase with two hanging baskets, sterling box with wood insert, 2 cigarette cases 1 unmarked, small notebook sleeve, Faberge marked martini shaker, 6 demitasse spoons in Faberge marked box, Faberge marked enameled handle letter opener with box.
Approximate weight overall: 2,480 grams..
Condition: Some wear and tarnish throughout.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sterling Hollowware and Faux Faberge Desk Items

Lot# 3009

Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot# 3010

Collection of Sterling Hollowware, Some Weighted

Comprising pair of weighted three light Gorham candelabras, pair of weighted three light candelabras, set of four weighted shakers, two pairs of weighted candlesticks, paper grinder, small bell form weight, shell form dish, small round dish, pair of shakers with pair of matching salt cellars, two shakers, small glass jar, small trophy form vessel, Tiffany Co. iced tea spoon.
Approximate weighable silver: 724 grams, overall weight 4,680 grams..
Condition: Wear and tarnish throughout. One candleholder with loss.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Collection of Sterling Hollowware, Some Weighted

Lot# 3010

Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot# 3011

Queen Anne Style Sterling Tea Pot and Hot Water Pot

With wood handles.
Hallmarks for Samuel Watton Smith Co, London, Birmingham, u (1935) the undersides with 25200.
Approximate weight including handles: 872 grams. Approximate dimensions: 8 high..
Condition: Some tarnish and surface wear.

Estimate: $500 - $600

Lot# 3012

Lebkeucher Sterling Silver Carafe and Black Starr Box

Comprising the carafe with monogram to side, cover, silver capped cork stopper, and glass liner to interior Black Starr Gorham small box with wood lined interior.
Approximate weight includes all elements: 1,490 grams. Approximate dimensions: Carafe 10 high, box 1 1/4 high x 3 1/4 wide x 3 deep..
Condition: Minor wear overall, mainly to the box underside.

Estimate: $500 - $800

Lot# 3013

Composite Masons Red Transferware Dinner Service

Comprising: Twelve Dinner Plates, 10 3/4 Diameter. Eight Rim Soup Plates, 2 H. x 9 1/8 Diameter. Twelve Luncheon Plates, 8 Diameter. Ten Cereal Bowls, 1 3/4 H. x 6 1/4 Diameter. Fifteen Dessert Plates, 5 3/4 Diameter. Eleven Side Dishes, 1 H. x 5 1/8 Diameter. Fifteen Tea Cups, 2 1/4 H x 4 3/4 W. including Handles x 4 Deep. Thirteen Saucers, 5 3/4 Diameter. Four egg cups, 4 H. x 3 Diameter. Together with an octagonal serving bowl, octagonal jug, oval vegetable dish and gravy boat with integral stand. (Total: 101 items).
Approximate dimensions: Serving bowl: 3 7/8 H. x 7 1/2 W. x 7 1/2 D. Jug: 6 H. Vegetable bowl: 2 1/4 H. x 9 1/2 W. x 7 1/2 D. Sauceboat and stand: 4 1/4 H. x 8 1/8 W. x 7 D..
Condition: Dinner plates - three in very good condition, the remainder with crazing, some quite heavily crazed, one with slight chip to edge. minor stains due to heat exposure. Rim soup plates - Three in very good condition, five with crazing. Luncheon plates Four in very good condition, eight with crazing, Y-cracks, long cracks, and some with staining and dirt. Cereal bowls - Three in very good condition, the remainder with crazing, some quite heavily crazed and with stains. Dessert plates: One in very good condition, the remainder crazed, and five with rim chips. Some with dripping glaze, Y-cracks and staining. Side dishes: Four in very good condition, the remainder with crazing, Y-cracks, stains, etc. Two of those with chips. Teacups: Three in very good condition, most with light glaze cracks or hairline cracks, some with heavier hairline cracks and with light staining. Saucers - two in very good condition, the remainder with light and heavier cracks, several with sparse chips and lightly stained. Egg cups, Two in very good condition, two with crazing and one of those with several shallow rim chips. Serving articles all in very good condition with light crazing.

Estimate: $400 - $700

Composite Masons Red Transferware Dinner Service

Lot# 3013

Estimate: $400 - $700

Lot# 3014

Masons and Ashworths Ironstone Dinner Service

Staffordshire, England.
Circa 1850 - 1870.
Comprising: soup tureen, cover and underplate two vegetable tureens and covers sauce tureen, cover and underplate, three platters in two sizes, a rim soup plate, and twelve dinner plates. The handles and covers in the form of entwined porpoises with gilt scales and beards, the tureens all of scalloped and lobed round form, the platters with scalloped rims. All painted in iron-red, gold and blue with Imari pattern.
Many items with Ashworths marks impressed, and Masons transfer-printed marks in purple or green.
Approximate dimensions: The soup tureen 12 3/4 H. x 13 1/2 W. x 12 1/2 D. The stand 2 1/4 H. x 15 W. x 12 1/2 D. Largest platter 1 5/8 H. x 15 W. x 12 1/2 D. The dinner plates 10 1/2 Diameter..
Condition: Overall condition is very good, with minor crazing to glaze, typical of the wear, gilding and enamel wear. On the edges to most of the pieces, the lustered orange border shows extensive wear. Gilt to handles worn to one tureen. Minor splotches of underglaze blue to undersides.
Notes: The pattern is known as Imperial Rich Ruby, and numbered 4/10, according to the Transferware Collectors Club data base, and is interchangeable with Masons Ironstone China pattern 9872.

Estimate: $700 - $1000

Masons and Ashworths Ironstone Dinner Service

Lot# 3014

Estimate: $700 - $1000

Lot# 3015

Eight Masons Ironstone Table Articles

Staffordshire, England.
Circa 1835 - 1850.
Including Green Mandarin pattern well and tree platter, pair of blue ground Imari jugs, a pair of iron-red scale Chinoiserie Hydra handle jugs a blue ground Imari pattern jug with Hydra handle and two more Chinoiserie jugs, Boy in the Door of Chinese of Rank pattern.
Four of the jugs with black transfer-printed Masons marks.
Approximate dimensions: The platter 2 1/2 H. x 20 1/2 W. x 16 D. The jugs 6 1/4 H. to 8 H. overall..
Condition: The platter in good condition but for some wear to enamels. One pie-shaped section of a red-scale jug in pair with 1 1/2 loss to rim. Handle broken off and glued back to body on red-scale single jug. Restoration to enamel and extensive gilding loss to both handles to pair of Imari jugs. All items with some wear to surfaces, minor scratches to surfaces, and gilt losses.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Eight Masons Ironstone Table Articles

Lot# 3015

Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot# 3016

Eleven Dresden Porcelain Cabinet Plates by R. Wehsener

Circa 1915-1925.
In Vienna Style. Each molded with scalloped border, the rims and wells extensively decorated with raised, rouletted gilt foliate designs, with faux gems and pearls in pastel hued enamels, the faces with raised paste gilt miter pretiosa held aloft by two clawed forearms, above the motto, MALGRE TOUT.
Each with black script identification to underside, and blue R. WEHSENER./DRESDEN marks.
Appproximate dimensions: 8 5/8 Diameter..
Condition: The overall condition is very good. Minimal wear and scratching to surfaces. Each with minor scattered black dots of kiln frit. One dish has a slightly different resonance than the others, but the flaw is not visible to the eye.

Estimate: $4000 - $7000

Lot# 3016A

Twelve R. Wehsener Dresden Porcelain Cabinet Cup Sets

Circa 1920.
Molded as footed, two-handled cups and saucers, each decorated with gilt wash and mercury gilt interior bowls, the exteriors and the saucers decorated with gilt and raised stencilled gilt paste foliate motifs, under a wide band of gilt beads. The cup covers of raised domed form, each with a mercury gilt inverted acorn knop, over gilt decoration to match the saucers and cups, and each with a finely painted polychrome enamel named portrait bust after an Old Master painting or Classical myth, within an ovular cartouche to one side.
The cups and and saucers each with blue R. WEHSENER./DRESDEN. painted to underside. The covers with script name of bust in cartouche painted in black enamel.
Approximate dimensions: 5 1/2 H., the cups and covers 5 3/4 H. including saucers. 5 7/8 W., including handles. 5 3/4 Diameter, the saucers..
Condition: Overall, the condition is very good. Some wear and scratching to gilding. Some of the cups have impressions to the bowl interior from the handles, due to thin walls during firing. Minimal scratches to polychrome enamels. One cup cover has a 3/8 shallow rim chip to the flange, overpainted with gilding. Each with minor scattered black dots of kiln frit. Light scratches to gold surfaces. Several of the cups have irregular banding to the mercury band to cup interior rims.

Estimate: $2000 - $3000

Lot# 3018

Doulton Pottery Vase Painted by Harry Morrey

Burslem, Staffordshire, England.
Circa 1930.
The ovoidal vase with flared neck and foot, painted in warm tones with highland cattle in marshes, amid flying gulls, with trees to sides.
Green transfer-printed mark of lion over crown, over ROYAL DOULTON /ENGLAND MARKS, the footrim impressed IVORY, 0 7 419. and 1627200.
Approximate dimensions: 12 1/2 H..
Condition Overall condition is very good, with light crazing to the glaze consistent with age and factory. a 1 3/8 long section of the foot has not been glazed with the dark brown enamel and glaze.
Harry Morrey worked as decorative painter with the Doulton firm from 1884-1944.

Estimate: $500 - $700

Doulton Pottery Vase Painted by Harry Morrey

Lot# 3018

Estimate: $500 - $700

Lot# 3019

Kister German Porcelain Seven Piece Monkey Band

Comprising conductor, violin, clarinet, French horn, drum, bagpipe, and trumpet also with cello, possibly Carl Schneider.
Markings to undersides.
Approximate dimensions overall: 4 1/4 - 7 high..
Condition: Minor wear to undersides. Some very small spots of rubbing to paint and gilt. French horn with textured mark to gilt. Repair to bow of cello player and significant rubbing to paint.

Estimate: $400 - $700

Kister German Porcelain Seven Piece Monkey Band

Lot# 3019

Estimate: $400 - $700

Lot# 3020

Paired Wedgwood Lusters and Sconces

Mid 19th Century and later.
One pair of Neoclassical Wedgwood Jasper pottery and cut glass cylindrical candlesticks, with gilt brass mounts and suspended drops, and one pair of two light sconces, with Jasperware roundels and gilt brass and bronze backs and arms. The blue pottery with white slip, decorated with dancing classical maidens, possibly the muses, the sconces with Andromache, and Britannia mourning over urns in roundels.
The lusters marked near muse carrying a wreath, toward base, impressed WEDGWOOD.
Approximate dimensions: The lusters 13 H. The sconces 7 5/8 H. x 13 W. x 7 5/8 D..
Condition Minor chips to crystal, wear, patination, and scratches to surfaces.

Estimate: $400 - $700

Paired Wedgwood Lusters and Sconces

Lot# 3020

Estimate: $400 - $700

Lot# 3021

Tiffany Studios Table Lamp 445 with Dome Shade

Bronze base, green glass dome shade.
The lamp underside with TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 445 the shade interior rim with TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK.
Approximate dimensions: 17 3/4 high x 10 diameter..
Condition: Shade looks to have been cleaned which has altered the glass from its original state. Patina to the base has also been cleaned. Rewired mid 20th century.

Estimate: $1000 - $1500

Tiffany Studios Table Lamp 445 with Dome Shade

Lot# 3021

Estimate: $1000 - $1500

Lot# 3022

Three Montblanc Pens Incl Meisterstuck Fountain Pen

Late 20th Century.
The Meisterstuck and Diplomat model fountain pens both with with a model 4810 14K 585 gold nibs, the third a ball point pen with replaceable cartridge. This lot includes an instruction manual, guarantee booklet and warranty card dated 1986.
Approximate dimensions: The Meisterstuck 5 15/16 L, the others 5 1/2 L..
Condition: All three pens are in very good condition, with almost no signs of usage. A few scattered, light scratches.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot# 3023

Old Mission Kopper Kraft Eucalyptus Table Articles

Circa 1922.
Comprising a pair of eucalyptus bookends, and a pair of eucalyptus candlesticks real seed pods treated and metalized.
Bookend underside with round paper label OLD MISSION KOPPER KRAFT , INC. candlestick underside with the same label with loss.
Approximate dimensions: Bookends 5 1/4 high x 6 wide x 4 1/4 deep, candlesticks 6 1/4 high..
Condition: Patina and some surface wear throughout. Loss to seed pods on bookends.

Estimate: $600 - $1000

Lot# 3024

Old Mission Kopper Kraft Eucalyptus Bowl

Circa 1922.
Hammered copper round bowl with bronze eucalyptus leaf and metalized seed pods.
The underside with OLD MISSION KOPPER KRAFT SAN FRANCISCO incised mark.
Approximate dimensions: 2 1/2 high x 8 3/4 diameter..
Condition: Patina and some surface wear. Loss to one seed pod, another with loss to metalized finish. Leaf mount is slightly loose.

Estimate: $800 - $1200

Old Mission Kopper Kraft Eucalyptus Bowl

Lot# 3024

Estimate: $800 - $1200

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