Strauss & co - 8 October 2012, Cape Town

251 A Victorian silver four-piece tea and coffee service, Charles Reily & George Storer, London, 1842- 1843 comprising: a teapot, coffee pot, milk jug and two-handled sugar basin, each piece chased and engraved with panels of scrolls, foliage and diaper work, enclosing a crest on the front and the initial ‘R’ on the reverse, with leaf-capped double c-scroll handle, the teapot and coffee pot with a flowerhead and leaf finial, the milk jug and sugar basin with gilt interior, on four scroll feet, 2370g, the coffee pot 24cm high (4) R10 000 – 15 000 PROVENANCE The Garlick family, Graceland, St James 252 A Victorian silver mustard pot, George Frederick Pinnell, London, 1846 the pierced panels with c-scrolls, the domed cover with a crest, with foliate thumbpiece and double c-scroll handle, later blue glass liner, 125g, 9cm high; another, James Edwards, London, 1848, the pierced body enclosing a cartouche with the initials ‘JJS’, the domed cover engraved with scrolling foliage and with flowerhead finial, with pierced thumbpiece and scroll handle, later blue glass liner, 105g, 7cm high; a George III silver mustard spoon, George Smith II & Thomas Hayter, London, 1802, with gilt bowl, 7g; and an electroplate example (4) R4 000 – 6 000 253 A Victorian silver salver, Daniel & Charles Houle, London, 1859 circular, the body with radiating panels of architectural motifs enclosing the inscription, “PRESENTED TO COLONEL GODFREY THOMAS GREENE, BENGAL ENGINEERS, Director OF Engineering AND Architectural Works TO THE ADMIRALTY by the Members of his Department. IN VERY GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF HIS ABLE ADVOCACY OF THEIR CLAIMS, and of his continued exertions on their behalf. Resulting in the ORDER IN COUNCIL of 3rd MARCH 1859 WHICH ADMITTED THEM TO THE ADVANTAGES ENJOYED BY Established Officers of HM Civil Service”, with a rope border, on three shell and scroll feet, 2500g, 46,5cm diameter R15 000 – 20 000 250 251 250 84