Strauss & co - 22 October 2012, Cape Town

460 Two plated tastevin each with handle and thumbpiece, gadrooned and boss borders, the larger 11,5cmdiameter; and an enamel wine label, 18th century, painted with the inscription ‘CAP’within a floral border, restoration and some chipping, 6cm long (3) R2 000 – 3 000 462 A set of six Sheffield plated eggcups, 19th century each on a gadrooned circular base, 5,5cm high (6) R400 – 600 463 An electroplated coffee pot, 20th century with hinged domed cover, applied with a composition handle, 11,5cm high; an electroplated hot water jug, Harrods, modern, 23cm high; an American Williamsberg Kirk Stieff pewter coffee pot, modern, no 149/250, 28cm high; and a silver sugar bowl, London, 1915, the reeded body raised on a circular foot, 200g, 6cm high (4) R1 200 – 1 500 464 A colonial rootwood and metal- mounted pipe the handle composed of three beads carved with faces, with a wooden tobacco jar; an electroplated tobacco pipe stopper; and two Dutch clay pipes (4) R500 – 700 465 A brass snuffbox, 19th century oval, the hinged cover engraved with ‘W. Williams’, 8cm long; another, rectangular, with canted corners, 6,5cm long; a copper and brass example, oval, 6cm long; two pewter examples, the larger 8cm long; a brass shell-shaped covered box, 10cm wide; and a pewter shell-shaped snuffbox, 5cmwide (7) R1 000 – 1 500 458 A silver ‘Old English’ pattern soup ladle, bearing marks for London 1764 195g R1 000 – 1 500 457 An ‘Old English’ pattern silver tablespoon, London, 18th century the terminal engraved with the initials ‘TG/TH’and the date ‘1776’, 95g; a plated tablespoon, 19th century, the reverse of the bowl engraved with flowers; and a George III coin (3) R700 – 900 These items were discovered in the Keerweder homestead during restoration. 459 An Austrian Hungarian silver milk jug, maker’s initials W.W, circa 1820 the bulbous body engraved with a vacant cartouche between stylised foliate borders, dents to the spout, 175g, 10cmhigh; a Dutch silver tea straw, 20g; a Dutch silver sugar sifter, the pierced bowl moulded with a bird, 20g; and a Continental plated hexagonal box and cover, the sides engraved with figural panels, gilt interior, raised on three ball feet, 6cmhigh (4) R1 500 – 2 000 461 A Dutch Delft manganese tile, 18th century painted with the figures of two spies from the Land of Canaan; nine bisque wine labels, later inscribed ‘Keerweder’, and a quantity of ceramic fragments, 18th/19th century (Qty) R1 200 – 1 500 Plaque above Dome door 132