Strauss & co - 8 October 2012, Cape Town

264 260 A George V silver-mounted frame, maker’s mark rubbed, Birmingham, 1912 rectangular, with foliate borders headed by a vacant cartouche, distressed, 30cm high; an Edward VII silver-mounted frame, Green & Cadbury Ltd, Birmingham, 1907, moulded with ribbons, swags and a pair of vacant cartouches, 22,5cm high; and another, 1913, similar, 24cm high (3) R4 500 – 6 000 261 A silver-mounted frame, DR & S, Birmingham, 1993 rectangular with canted corners, moulded with floral sprays headed by a vacant cartouche, 30cm high, and a pair of George V examples, H Matthews, Birmingham, 1911, each with scrolling foliage headed by a vacant cartouche, with distress, 21cm high (3) R3 000 – 4 000 262 A Victorian silver novelty inkwell, maker’s marks rubbed, London, 1894 modelled as a French bulldog, the hinged cover set with glass eyes, the base of the square-shaped inkwell cut with printies, 13,5 high R2 000 – 3 000 263 A Victorian silver and glass oil lamp, Mappin & Webb, Sheffield, 1894 with Corinthian column, cut-glass reservoir, funnel and globe, now fitted for electricity, 75cm high R8 000 – 10 000 264 A Victorian silver-gilt Arts and Crafts bowl, Charles Robert Ashbee, London, 1896 the hammered lobed interior forming a flowerhead, the sides pierced with branches and fruit, with domed base, 415g, 20cm diameter R60 000 – 80 000 LITERATURE cf. Peter Waldron, The Price Guide to Antique Silver, Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2001, page 120 where a similar example is illustrated 265 A Victorian silver-mounted cut-glass lemonade jug, Mappin & Webb, Sheffield, 1898 the hinged cover with ball finial, the shoulder engraved with initials, the interior with a silver-mounted glass cylinder, the tapering body cut with panels of printies and lozenges, with star-cut base, 30cm high R6 000 – 8 000 86