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.