Fine Silver and Objects of Vertu - 29th April 2015
Lot 398
By The Guild of Handicraft Ltd
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £1300
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Description
By The Guild of Handicraft Ltd, an Edwardian silver butter spade,
London 1902,
spot-hammered oar shaped body with a pierced scroll wirework finial set with a carnelion
length 13.8cm, approx. weight 1.2oz.
For an copy of a drawing of a similar shaped item, see Modern English Silver work: An Essay by C.R.Ashbee, Alan Crawford and Shirley Bury Edition, 1974, plate 19.