Silver & Collectors' Items - Day 2 - 25th January 2012

Lot 544

A Victorian silver-gilt novelty 'Mr Toby' pepper pot

Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £1500

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Description

A Victorian silver-gilt novelty 'Mr Toby' pepper pot, by Charles Stuart Harris, London 1869, also marked with a Victorian registration lozenge, modelled in a begging position wearing an apron, height 10cm, approx. weight 2oz. Provenance; from a private collection of novelty silver animals, Fine Silver Sale, Bonhams, New Bond Street 2 July 2008, lot 197.