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Lot 390

A George III silver cream jug with scroll handle, marks rubbed, A/F

Lot 391

Silver sauce boat with bone handle and three scroll legs by Edward Viner, Sheffield 1936

Lot 392

Silver cream jug shaped circular on raised circular base , Sheffield 1943

Lot 393

A silver sugar sifter, pear shaped on raised circular base, marks rubbed

Lot 394

A silver vase form sugar sifter with pierced pull-off cover, Birmingham 1934

Lot 395

A silver circular pierced bonbon dish, Birmingham 1959

Lot 396

A silver mug with scroll handle on raised circular base, Birmingham 1931

Lot 397

A quantity of cased silver flatware to include grapefruit spoons and teaspoons

Lot 399

A quantity of silver to include a dressing table set, a scent bottle and clothes brushes, A/F, (9)

Lot 400

A Continental white metal bonbon dish, a silver brandy label and two silver napkin rings

Lot 401

A quantity of silver to include a sugar sifter, a pickle dish, condiments and a pill box (6)

Lot 402

A silver engine turned cigarette case, Birmingham 1934

Lot 403

An engine turned silver cigar piercer, a silver fruit knife and two silver cigar cutters

Lot 404

A silver circular bonbon dish on three claw feet, London 1919

Lot 405

A quantity of silver and white metal to include two whisky labels, a magnifying glass, a tortoiseshell and white metal pill box and a white metal pusher

Lot 407

Mappin and Webb canteen of silver plated flatware for six place setting

Lot 408

A silver plated nine light candelabrum, scrolling arms, tapering ribbed stem, the trefoil base surmounted by winged horses

Lot 410

A silver plated four piece teaset and an oval tray with two side handles

Lot 411

A late Victorian Mappin and Webb silver plated four piece tea and coffee set and a circular salver

Lot 413

Silver plated cruet stand with six cut glass condiment bottles

Lot 414

A quantity of silver plated flatware some in fitted cases

Lot 415

A quantity of silver plate to include entree dishes and covers, vegetable dishes and a tray (7)

Lot 416

A quantity of silver plate to include a plate stand, a tea kettle on stand and an hors d'oeuvre dish

Lot 417

A quantity of silver plate to include a teaset, cocktail shaker, decanters and flatware

Lot 418

A quantity of silver plate to include trays, wine bottle coaster, cafe au lait set, an ice bucket and flatware

Lot 419

A quantity of silver plate to include jardinières, trays, boxes and wine coasters

Lot 12

Ghuzz Rulers of Syr Darya, ‘Abdallah b. Tahir (213-230h) and Muhammad, drachm, without mint or date, obv., bust to right with ‘Abdallah b. Tahir before, rev., horseman riding right, Muhammad behind his back, 1.47g (Goncharov/Nastich Type I), some weak striking, good very fine and struck in good silver very rare

Lot 13

Ghuzz Rulers of Syr Darya, ‘Abdallah b. Tahir (213-230h) and Namij Jabuya, drachm, without mint or date, obv., bust to right with ‘Abdallah b. Tahir before, rev., horseman riding right, Namij Jabu-ya behind his back, 1.68g (Goncharov/Nastich Type II), in good silver, good very fine for issue and very rare

Lot 17

Umayyad, dinar, Ma‘din Amir al-Mu’minin 92h, obv., in field: la ilaha illa | Allah wahdahu | la sharik lahu | Ma‘din Amir | al-Mu’minin; rev., standard Umayyad type with date legend in margin, point below b of duriba, 4.25g (SICA 10, 487, same obverse die; Bernardi 47), minor marks in reverse field but generally good very fine, historically important and extremely rare. Enigmatic, historically intriguing, and of the highest rarity, Umayyad dinars from the ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful’ have fascinated numismatists for more than a century. The circumstances under which they were issued are still the subject of scholarly debate, although recent research and newly published coins have advanced our knowledge considerably in recent years. Examples dated 89h, 92h and 105h have been sold in these rooms previously (the unique coin of 89h on 23 April 2012 and the other two dates on 4 April 2011). The phrase ‘Ma‘din Amir al-Mu’minin’ is found on two groups of gold coins. The earlier group, known for the years 89h, 91h and 92h and to which this coin belongs, carries these words in the obverse field below the normal inscriptions. On the later coins, known only for the year 105h, the phrase is expanded to read ‘Ma‘din Amir al-Mu’minin bi’l-Hijaz,’ ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful in the Hejaz,’ and is placed in the lower part of the reverse field. The significance of the Ma‘din inscription is still debated but, as has previously been argued, there is much to be said for the simplest explanation: that it refers to a mine belonging to the caliph. While the word ‘mine’ can be used metaphorically in Arabic, all other legends found on post-Reform Umayyad gold and silver coins are either religious (verses from the Qur’an) or factual (stating where and when the coin was struck). That being said, it seems difficult to treat it as a normal mint-name, which one would expect to find in the margin with the date, and for which there would certainly have been space to include there. It has also been observed that the mints on the Umayyad silver coinage were set up in cities, or perhaps at places where the army halted on campaign, but are not otherwise known to have been set up at a mine itself. There are several with the title Madinat, city,’ but none with Ma‘din, ‘mine.’ It seems more plausible that this inscription denotes to the source of the gold, indicating that it had been extracted from a mine owned by the caliph himself. It has been plausibly suggested that ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful’ dinars may have been struck at a travelling mint which accompanied the caliph. If this was staffed by workers from the Damascus mint using their usual tools and equipment, one would expect the coins they produced to look identical, whether struck in the capital or on the road. But coins of all three dates known for this issue – 89h, 91h and 92h, and indeed of the related coins dated 105h, all share dated reverse dies with standard mintless Umayyad dinars which are generally accepted as having been struck in or near Damascus. These reverse dies also bear the date, which means that they can only (or should only) have been used for the one year engraved on them. It therefore follows that if these reverse dies did indeed leave Damascus with a travelling mint they can only have been away from the capital for more than a few months at most. On the other hand we know that an obverse die with the Ma‘din Amir al-Mu’minin legend was shared between coins struck over a period of at least four years. Clearly this special die was not considered redundant at the year’s end but was kept for future use. For a single die to survive for four years also suggests that these ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful’ dinars can only have been produced in very small numbers, which is consistent with their great rarity today. Where might the caliph’s mines have been located? The legend Ma‘din Amir al-Mu’minin bi’l-Hijaz found on dinars of 105h, together with the fact that the Umayyad caliph ‘Umar is recorded as having purchased a plot of land containing a gold mine in the Hejaz area (Miles, op. cit., p. 266), has led scholars to propose that the gold used to strike these earlier dinars also came from the Hejaz. It has also been suggested that the caliph might have visited mines in this area while travelling to the Holy Places. In his catalogue of the Turath Collection, Ilisch hypothesized that ‘a travelling “court mint”, dependent on the main mint and Damascus and working for the caliphal private treasury...was in operation on several occasions: in connection with the construction work for the great mosque in Medina (built...in 88-91 A.H.) [and] during the visit of the caliph al-Walid to Medina in 91/92 A.H., when he led the Hajj.’ This in turn raises several interesting questions: Did gold from the caliph’s personal mines have a different status from gold obtained from other sources? Was this gold somehow treated differently from gold brought to the mint through tax revenues or by private individuals? Might it reflect an early distinction between state funds and the privy purse? Or might they even have been personal gifts from the caliph himself? For further discussion of this coinage and a specialist bibliography, please see Morton and Eden auction 48, 4 April 2011 where two other ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful’ dinars were sold, dated 92h (sold for £648,000) and 105h (sold for £3,720,000).

Lot 18

Umayyad, temp. ‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwan (65-86h), dirham, Arminiya 78h, obv., with Muhammad rasul Allah…in margin, rev., with mint/date formula in margin, wa at beginning of third line in field, 2.77g (Klat 45 = Naqshabandi and Bakri 3), toned, good very fine and excessively rare. All Umayyad post-Reform silver from the year 78h is of the highest rarity, to the extent that Walker, writing in 1956, was unaware that any even existed. Since then, barely a dozen examples of this date have come to light, but these few coins have transformed our understanding of how the reform of the silver coinage came about. Unaware that dirhams dated 78h existed, Walker believed that the earliest post-Reform silver coin was a mintless dirham dated 79h (Walker p.104, Kh.4; an example of this issue was sold in these rooms, 22 April 2013, lot 10), which he attributed – almost certainly correctly – to the mint of Damascus.  He considered that this was an experimental piece, issued without mint-name to conform to the pattern set by the gold dinar coinage, but that when a number of other mints began striking the new dirhams in 79h it was decided to add the mint-name to Damascus dirhams also.  But the existence of dirhams dated 78h from five different mints – Adharbayjan, Arminiya (as here), Jayy, Shaqq al-Taymara and al-Kufa, all of which were active in the year before production began at Damascus, demonstrates that the reformed dirham coinage was not something begun in the capital and gradually adopted elsewhere, as Walker’s explanation implied.  Instead, it seems that the decision to begin issuing the new dirhams began in the year 78h, with dozens of mints involved, but for practical reasons not all were able to begin production immediately.  Those which were already striking silver coins might be expected to have begun issuing the new coins sooner, while others, including those which were geographically more remote, or where a mint had been reopened or a new facility established, would surely have taken longer. The calligraphy on this piece has clear similarities with that found on Armenian drachms issued circa 75-78h under Muhammad b. Marwan, the caliph’s brother and governor of the province, and the presence of local workers who were able to produce new dies on site may have been another reason why Armenia was able to begin striking post-Reform dirhams more quickly than other locations.  This might also explain why the legends are placed differently on this specimen – as an exceptionally early issue it was struck before the precise format of the design had evolved. It may be noted that the placing of the mint/date formula on the reverse, as on this piece, rather than on the obverse where later Umayyad dirhams carry it, is exactly the same arrangement as adopted on the post-Reform gold coinage.  So Armenia, which was producing its own distinctive regional coinage at the time of the reforms, may well have been in a position to strike dirhams before Damascus, whose own silver coinage during the 70s is restricted to a few experimental types which never seem to have been struck in quantity.

Lot 311

Fatimid, al-Mu‘izz (341-365h), dirham, Filastin 359h, 2.73g (Nicol 340), fair to fine and rare, the first Fatimid silver coinage from Filastin

Lot 447

Chaghatayid, Buyan Quli Khan (749-760h), silver 12-dirhams, without mint-name (struck in Harat), dated 758h, 8.38g (Album A2009), good very fine and scarce

Lot 155

Two pairs of silver cuff links, one pair a square pierced rectangle, stamped 925, the others in the form of concave circles, stamped Mexico 925 IP-OI, both in Harrods of Knightsbridge cufflink boxes, 24gms gross

Lot 411

An early 20th century Josef Hoffman for Moser amber panel cut glass 'Kirchen Topf', with marked silver two-pronged fork and ladle spoon, amber glass stopper, and marked silver top, marked for Darmstadt, 28cm high, Circa 1905

Lot 69

A selection of silver items to include: a pair of pepperettes, half lobed bodies, square stepped feet, both engraved with the cipher SD?, indistinct maker's mark , Birmingham 1891; a pair of sugar tongs, pierced feathered and foliate engraved sides, indistinct maker's mark, London 1912; a cut glass scent bottle with silver collar, by W H Carrington & Co, Chester; a scent phial by C C May & Sons, Birmingham, 82gms gross weighable silver (5) (faults)

Lot 754

A Victorian walking stick with carved ivory terminal in the form of a hand clasping an orb, the silver coloured metal collar embossed and engraved with scrolling foliage, marked with Chinese characters and 'Royal Goedewaagen', narrow beech shaft, white metal ferrule, 85.5cm high (faults)

Lot 430A

A Chinese silver box, the pierced lid and sides elaborately chased and embossed with four toed dragons and stylised clouds, some of the dragons chasing the flaming pearl, vacant oval cartouche to hinged lid, four scrolling foliate cast feet, by Wang Hing, base marked WH90, 9.5cm high, 17cm wide, 494gms

Lot 2

A large Victorian silver plated table mirror top plateau, the shaped and stepped rim with stylised shells, roses and foliage, vacant cartouche to each side, 8cm high, 85cm wide, Circa 1850

Lot 488

An exceptionally fine large Japanese bronze vase of tall, slightly tapered form, the shallow neck detailed with butterflies and insects, the body engraved and decorated in high and low relief with flying finch amidst mop head hydrangeas, leafage and blossoms, all in silver, gold, copper and shakudo, stepped circular foot, 47cm high, signed 大日本嘉幸造 Dai-Nihon Kako zo [Made by Kako, Great Japan], the artist Suzuki Chokichi 鈴木長吉(1848-1919), whose art name was Kako 嘉幸., an Imperial Craftsman, Meiji period (converted for electricity and partially drilled through signature, the top bearing three solder points to the upper rim)嘉幸 Kakō (Suzuki Chōkichi鈴木長吉) was born on the 15th of the eighth month of Kaei 1 (1848) and was appointed as the chief of the metal craft division of the Kiryu Kosho Company. He exhibited at many of the inland and international expositions of the time. In Meiji 29 (1896), he was appointed as an Imperial Craftsman (Teishitsu Gigei-in 帝室技芸員). He died on the 20th of January, Taisho 8 (1919), aged 72. In Meiji 28 (1895), he exhibited a bronze Eagle at the Nuremburg Exhibition, Germany. He exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia, at the 1893 Chicago Columbus, at the 1900 Paris Expositions and won many awards. In Japan, he exhibited at the 1881 Second Inland and 1890 Third Inland Industrial Exhibitions. His works can be found in the Khalili collection.

Lot 752

A 19th Century walking stick, the rootball terminal carved as a boxer dog's head, silver coloured metal belt style collar to beech shaft, no ferrule, 90.5cm high

Lot 68

A silver pedestal dish with shaped rim, stepped circular foot, by Barker Brothers, Chester 1906, 10cm high, 25cm diameter, 502gms

Lot 67

A silver Garrard & Co cigarette box, plain body, wooden interior with three adjustable compartments, by Garrard & Co Ltd, Birmingham 1962, 5.5cm high, 24.3cm wide, 10.3cm deep (minor faults)

Lot 1

A silver plated cake set comprising six dessert forks, four teaspoons, a pair of sugar nips, a cake slice, a pair of dessert tongs etc., all cast and pierced with roses, marked Antiko 100, 21cm long and smaller (qty) (faults)

Lot 57A

A selection of silver items to include: a pair of candlesticks, the bodies chased and embossed with birds and scrolling foliage, by W I Broadway & Co, Birmingham 1961(filled); a silver topped dressing table jar, the body cut with hobnail pattern, the lid chased and embossed with scrolling foliage, central cartouche engraved with the initials ME?, by A & J Zimmerman Ltd, Birmingham 1907; a cut glass scent bottle with plain silver collar, by Henry Perkins & Sons, London 1927, 18cm high (4) (faults)

Lot 109

A selection of items to include: a pair of gilded brass beakers with blue and white champlevé enamelling, bases marked ΜΕΤΑΠΠ and 9φυ, each 6cm high; a Russian champlevé enamelled silver coloured metal table salt, green and red foliage to body, clear glass liner, marked Hommet?; a second Russian silver coloured metal table set embossed with scrolling foliage, clear glass liner, marked Hommet (4) (faults)

Lot 73

An unusual silver vinaigrette?, pierced scrolling foliate sides surrounding central quatrefoil, by William Comyns & Sons, London 1913, 4cm long, 7gms

Lot 84

An unusual Doulton pottery miniature saucepan with silver lid, simulated iron glaze to exterior of pot, grey glaze to the interior, base stamped Doulton Lambeth England 8489 1653 B, lid with reeded handle by Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders & James Francis Hollings, Chester 1893, 5cm high, 10cm wide

Lot 866

Russian Judaica - a 19th Century gem set ebony yad and sleeve, the yad with silver pommel centred on a facet cut ruby? the six segments applied silver wire and raised collets set turquoise, the collar beneath with six garnet cabochons above brass spear points, further conforming collars with brass and silver foliate detailed larger collars, the base with chamfered lozenge shaped pointer, the sleeve with upper gem set collar with collet set turquoise, sapphires, garnets, carnelians and emerald, conforming brass foliate trail decoration with applied tear shape carnelian cabochons, the base with collars of turquoise carnelians and garnets, pair of suspension rings, 58cm long

Lot 124

A gilt metal articulated bracelet, the five shaped links with stone cabochons within enamelled and filigree decorated borders of leaves, flowerheads and scrolls, 18cm long, stamped silver

Lot 751

An Edwardian walking stick with silver handle cast and engraved as a duck's head, red glass eyes, indistinct maker's mark, London 1905, tapering ebonised shaft, brass and iron ferrule, 89cm high (faults)

Lot 32

A silver dressing table set, each piece with very pale green enamel above engine turned detailing, hand painted sakura / cherry blossoms, the dressing table jar with floral moulded glass body and smoothed pontil scar, mirror to inside of lid, by Adie Brothers Ltd, Birmingham 1958/9, hand mirror 27.5cm high, 13cm wide (5) (faults)

Lot 66

A good Iranian silver coloured metal tray, the rectangular body profusely engraved with scrolling foliage surrounding three scenes, the central scallop rimmed cartouche depicting two mythical beasts watching a pair of fleeing rabbits, with the scenes to either side showing different palaces, raised reeded rim, silver marks? to body, 2cm high, 38.5cm wide, 27.5cm deep, 903gms

Lot 15

A set of six silver plated napkin rings, the bodies engraved with alternating bands with flowers and diamonds, unmarked; in good triangular leather case lined with green silk, 6cm high, 18cm wide

Lot 40A

A near pair of 17th Century Dutch silver dishes, the lobed oval bodies engraved with simple line detailing, conforming pedestal feet, applied scroll handles, the finials on the larger dish in the form of stylised dragons heads, the smaller dish's finials in the form of men's heads, each body engraved to one side with differing crest (one of which is dated 1702?), possibly by Groninger, 398gms gross

Lot 94

An Edwardian double sided owl buttonhook, one with yellow eyes, the reverse with red, 11.5cm long, Birmingham 1907; a silver coloured metal bookmark, the terminal cast to one side with an owl, 8.5cm long (2)

Lot 63

An unusual Norwegian silver folding spoon, cast scrolls and double headed terminal, the broad bowl engraved with 'Memento Mori' to scrolling ribbon formed as a stylised arrow head and surrounded by foliage, the stem engraved with 'Anno', dots and inverted scallops, conforming sliding clasp to hold spoon open, by Marius Hammer, marked MH 830S, 9cm long folded, 14cm long unfolded, 43gms

Lot 6

A silver plated honey pot in the form of a bee, the hinged wings acting as a lid above the burgundy glass body, 8.5cm high, 16.5cm long (faults)

Lot 34

A silver trophy cup with two S scroll handles, plain body, circular pedestal foot, by Fattorini & Sons Ltd, Birmingham 1935, 19cm high, 17.5cm wide, 174gms (faults)

Lot 22

A pair of Edwardian square silver mounted photo frames, the silver fronts chased and repoussé decorated with scrolling foliage, beaded circular inner rim, wooden backs, by Green & Cadbury Ltd, Birmingham 1904, each 10.8cm square (faults)

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