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Lot 20
A canteen of cutlery, for twelve settings by Viners of Sheffield in Dubarry pattern, comprising soup, dessert, grapefruit, tea and coffee spoons, dinner, dessert, fish and hors d'oeuvres knives and forks, six table spoons, two fruit spoons, two sauce and one soup ladle, a meat and game carving set, pair of fish servers and a bread knife, Sheffield 1963/64, 146.7ozs, contained in a mahogany bow fronted cabinet with hinged lid and frieze drawer on four square tapering fluted legs and spade feet, 31" wide
Lot 392
Canteen of silver King's pattern cutlery, Cooper Bros & Sons Sheffield 1973, consisting of eight each of: table forks, table knives and dessert knives with stainless blades, dessert forks, egg spoons, tea spoons, dessert spoons, soup spoons, fish knives and forks, four serving spoons, and a three-piece carving set with stainless blades, in a mahogany finished table-top cabinet. Approximately 135oz of weighable silver.
Lot 213
Castle Douglas / Dumfries - a rare Scottish provincial snuff mull by Adam Burgess of Castle Douglas or Dumfries, circa 1835 marked AB (in script), ruined castle, D, fouled anchor, the tapered cow horn body with carved seal head terminal, the top with applied band mount, the hinged horn cover with applied thistle design with circular cut amethyst, collet set to the centre 11cm long Notes: It has often been the case that this combination of the makers mark for Adam Burgess and the ruined castle mark signify his time working in Castle Douglas rather than Dumfries. It does seem a little hopeful that the surviving body of work featuring these marks comes from this short period, of eleven months. There can be no firm differentiation between these periods unless the items are fully hallmarked in Edinburgh (as is often the case) and the time line examined This item is the only recorded item by this maker other than flatware and has to be considered his only item of holloware to come to the marketplace to date. It is interesting to note from contemporary newspaper articles Burgess routinely expresses his ability and wishes to 'manufacture silver forks, spoons and every description of tea services, cups, child's cans and all kinds of gold and silver work' (taken from an advert in the Dumfries Courier). It seems likely that as with many provincial silversmiths his wishes and abilities to make sophisticated items were not realised against the needs of his customers. This also explains the known body of his extant work only being items of flatware. Reference: For full information on this maker in Castle Douglas and Dumfries see 'Dumfries Silversmiths' by Kirkpatrick H. Dobie FSA Scot
Lot 288
A Victorian presentation tea pot by John MacKay, Edinburgh 1864-1865, the egg shaped body with embossed and chased foliate scroll and shell decoration with ovoid cartouches, the domed lid with bud finial, the heavily swag fluted spout and C scroll silver handle with ivory insulators, resting on a simple spreading foot rim, the cartouche engraved with conjoined script initials to one and to the opposing cartouche 'Part of a Public Presentation of £5000 and Silver Plate to the Rev Thomas Guthrie DD 1864 25cm high 26oz Provenance: After the presentation to Reverend Guthrie in 1864, this teapot stayed within the Guthrie family. It passed to Guthrie's nephew and subsequently down the family line. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Guthrie was a great leader and visionary within the social reform of Scotland in the nineteenth century. Born in 1803 in Brechin, Guthrie was the son of a merchant; he started to attend University of Edinburgh in 1815 from the age of twelve. His education lead him to Paris where he studied natural philosophy, chemistry and comparative anatomy. Although originally a minister of the Church of Scotland, he became a very enthusiastic supporter of the movement within Scotland that lead to the disruption and his name is now more commonly associated with the Free Church. In his role within the Free Church, Guthrie is most famous for campaigning to owners and landlords who would not supply land for the setting up of Free Church parishes and churches. He also famously collected over £116,000 in eleven months between July 1845 - 46 to support the building of manses for the ministers of the Free Church. But even with all these activities, he is mainly remembered for the setting up of the 'Original Ragged Schools'. The idea at the time was based upon a similar one set up by John Pounds, a shoemaker from Portsmouth in 1818. His basic idea had been simply to teach poor children without charging fees, Guthrie then started his plea for the 'ragged schools'; he did however expand on the original idea. The Ragged Schools was to school, feed and give basic industrial training to the disadvantaged children of working class families, and all without charging fees. The 'Original Ragged School' was opened in 1848 on Castle Hill Edinburgh. While founded by Guthrie and the Church, a great amount of fundraising and subscription was needed from the public to continue the work of the school and collections around the city were a common sight, including fine jasper ware collection 'tins' in shops and taverns around the city. Lyon & Turnbull recently sold an example and this was subsequently donated to The National Museum of Scotland. The Ragged Schools were however not without controversy, a stipulation of attendance at the schools that all the pupils be brought up and educated as Protestants. This religious interference did create some controversy within the education system and those who staunchly disagreed with Guthrie would later go on to set up the United Industrial School. The main difference the education given, combined secular and separate religious teachings. On the 17th May 1864 aged 61, Thomas Guthrie resigned from public work, due to serious ill heath. He was presented by his congregation and the local community with £5000 and silver plate as a mark of their appreciation for his tireless work for the community and Scotland as a whole; this teapot is part of that presentation. A statue now stands in his honour towards the west end of Princes street, Edinburgh that bears the following inscription: 'An eloquent preacher of the gospel. Founder of the Edinburgh Original Ragged Industrial Schools, and by tongue and pen, the apostle of the movement elsewhere. One of the earliest temperance reformers. A friend of the poor and of the oppressed. Born at Brechin, Forfarshire. Minister successively of Arbirlot and of Greyfriars and St John's parish churches and of free St John's Church in this city'.
Lot 294
A matched Victorian three piece tea set by William Marshall, Edinburgh 1843-1844 and 1849-1850, comprising teapot, milk jug and twin handled sugar bowl, all of baluster inverted pear shaped design with panelled body, the bodies embossed with acanthus leaf and flower head designs, the shaped circular foot similarly decorated, the teapot with fluted curved spout and hinged lid with bud finial (3) teapot 20cm high, milk jug 18cm high, sugar bowl 15cm high, combined weight 49oz Notes: William Marshall was the appointed silver and goldsmith to the Queen in Scotland and had addition of a crown above his initials added within his makers mark. He is the only recorded maker to have taken these steps to show his Royal patronage
Lot 247
A collection of items to include. An Edwardian silver mounted glass table bell; an art deco vesta case; a cased set of silver waistcoat buttons; a lighter; a silver framed travelling timepiece; a mustard pot and cover; a cased set of six William IV fiddle pattern teaspoons and an associated pair of George III sugar tongs; a cased EPBM tea caddy and infuser spoon; a cased pair of horn handled fish servers.
Lot 253
A pair of silver pin trays. Carrington & Co., Birmingham 1920, of threaded lobed form, with inset George II coin to the raised centre, together with a cased pair of napkin rings; a tea strainer; two toast racks; two mustard pots and cover of octagonal form; a pierced and gem set napkin ring; a circular box and cover; an 800 standard sugar bowl frame; another beaker with 17th century style decoration (Qty).
Lot 288
Three cased sets of silver tea and coffee spoons. A set of six, London 1901, William Comyns and in a case retailed by Charles Pitt of London, with cast figural terminals; a cased set of six silver gilt and enamelled coffe bean spoons; a set of six silver gilt and enamelled Scndinavian coffee spoons with floral detail to the handles.
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