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ANTIQUE 19thC VICTORIAN SOLID SILVER FIGURATIVE SALT & PEPPER, LONDON c.1886

19th Century Victorian pair of novelty cast silver table salt & pepper, realistically modelled as two small seated children, one laughing and the other crying, with hinged lids at the base.

Hallmarked English silver (925), London, year 1886 (L), Maker TJ for Thomas Johnson II)

Reference Number: A6221

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ANTIQUE 19thC FRENCH EMPIRE SOLID SILVER TEA SERVICE, PARIS c.1880

19th Century French Empire style silver four piece tea service, consisting of a hot water urn, teapot, lidded sugar bowl and cream jug, all on four spreading scroll feet, the body applied with acanthus leaves and reeded boarders, twin ribbon tied scroll handles, mounted with pine cone finials. Hallmarked French silver (Minerva, 950), Maker A.D for Alphonse Debain.

Reference Number: B5255

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ANTIQUE 20thC GORHAM HUGE WWI ARTILLERY SHELL COCKTAIL SHAKER c.1915

20th Century American Gorham silver plated, copper and brass novelty artillery shell cocktail shaker, huge size, modelled as a very detailed fac-simile of the WWI Eighteen-Pounder Shrapnel Shell, in three sections, the top opens to reveal the strainer, the base contains a framework with four shot glasses.

The piece is Marked "FAC-SIMILE EIGHTEEN POUNDER SHRAPNEL SHELL" and "Patent Applied for America and Foreign Countries", made by Gorham Silver Company (important American manufacturer)

Reference Number: B6301

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ANTIQUE 19thC RUSSIAN FABERGE 56 GOLD LAPTI & SPOON CUFFLINKS, V SOLOVIEV c.1900

20th Century Imperial Russian Faberge 56 gold novelty cufflinks, shaped as a pair of lapti, shoes made primarily from bast, fiber taken from the bark of trees such as linden or birch. They are a kind of basket, woven and fitted to the shape of a foot. Bast shoes are an obsolete traditional footwear of the forest areas of Northern Europe, formerly worn by poorer members of the Finnic people, Balts, Russians and Belarussians. The other ends of the chain with porridge spoons, porridge being a staple diet of the slavic people. The pair comes in a beautiful leather bound retailer's case stamped "Faberge, St-Petersburg & Moscow".

Hallmarked Russian gold 56 (585), St-Petersburg, year 1908/17, Maker's mark BC for Vladimir Soloview.

Reference Number: C6286