SILVER IN THE STUDY: SCRIBING & PASSING TIME

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24 February 2010

Victorian, Edwardian & C20th silver Items for the Smart C21st Study

A selling exhibition of antique and contemporary silver items for the study
8 February to 22 May 2010

The study is a bolt-hole, for the writer, the loafer and the reader. The London Silver Vaults Spring selling exhibition 2010 will offer smart studies some fabulous Victorian, Edwardian and C20th silver, from beautiful desk accessories such as inkstands and blotters, pen trays, paperweights and propelling Victorian pencils, to candlesticks and electric silver lamps. Bookmarks and bookends lend a library air. After-dinner drinks and smoking require silver cigar requisites, glass & silver match-strikers, drinks trays and decanters, as well as pastimes for loafing over such as board games and silver dice, and sports trophies to reminisce over.

Amongst items in the exhibition will be: a silver and glass Owl match holder/striker, 1935 Birmingham, Barker Bros (£775, Gideon Cohen); an unusual table lighter in shape of pipe, 1906 Sheffield, by John Round (£575, Gideon Cohen); an antique silver inkstand with glass bottles, 1902 London, by Goldsmiths and Silversmiths (£3800, William Walter Antiques); the contemporary Honia electric table lamp by De Vecchi (£3900, Langfords); a rare glass and silver inkpot with fitting for pocket watch, 1905 London, Robert Hosier Halford (£2700, Linden & Co); a collection of silver bookmarks with figured ends (prices from around £25, Peter Weiss); an impressive ink well in the form of a large silver crenellated castle set on a granite stand, Dutch, imported 1924 (£5580, Stephen Kalms); English hallmarked sterling silver clock fitted in its original case, Birmingham 1906 (Silstar Antiques Ltd), and a collection of silver picture frames including and unusual ship frame by James Dudley, London 1896 (£1700, B.L.Collins).