Sterling silver

This is a beautiful tall Edwardian sterling silver (mounted) and cut crystal scent bottle, hallmarked to London 1902.

The bottle is 20 cms tall...that is quite TALL. I would say it is in excellent condition...just a few small dints here and there. Note, I haven't cleaned it yet.

A must have for any scent bottle collection.

A lovely sterling silver napkin ring made in Birmingham in 1914. The napkin ring is shaped and beaded around the edges. There are a few dints in places, but overall still in good condition, and very collectable.

A large 1923 sterling silver trophy made in London, fully hallmarked, made by SG. Is engraved for some horse race that took part in 1977 over 1900 metres (bit hard to make out the gothic scipts). It is a biggish cup for sterling silver, standing over 19.5 cms tall. It is in very good condition, just a few tiny dints here and there, actually only where it is engraved. It has an Art Deco appeal to it, which is understandable since it was made in 1923. It sits on a bakelite base with a felt bottom. It weights about 400 gms and most of that is silver...that is about 12-14 ounces of silver which for silver content alone is worth about $450, and it is 100 years old. 

A set of 6 lovely apostle tea spoons hallmarked to Birmingham 1906. In excellent condition overall. Over 100 years old.

A boxed set of 6 'sterling' silver Rose of Hildesheim tea spoons. Hallmarked 835 standard silver, which means they are 83.5% silver....whereas sterling silver is actually 92.5% silver.

Here we have 5 lovely (IN EXCELLENT CONDITION) solid sterling silver tea spoons or ice creams or desert spoons. I mention the later because they look rather bigger than I would have imagined old spoons looked like....but I am no expert. The spoons also have extra large handle ends, like with which to hold the spoon for eating something.....the other end of the spoons also seem to have a pointed end for inserting into something like ice-cream.

The hallmarks are all VERY clear and in excellent condition with the hairy lion face (London), walking lion, script letter B (1837) , a duty hallmark (for taxation), and the makers name BS (I believe this to me London silversmith Benjamin Smith).

It also have the initials JW on the spoons...who I believe is Joseph William of London. Maybe they both did something towards making these lovely spoons.

The spoons are 14 cms long (or 5 1/2 inches).

Like I said before they are in excellent condition.

A finely machined Art-Deco-ish sterling silver napkin ring, hallmarked to Birmingham 1924 (or 1949).