Strauss & co - 16 March 2015, Cape Town

88 A pair of Victorian silver-gilt King’s pattern nutcrackers, Mary Chawner & George Adams, London, 1840 the arms engraved with a crest, 170g, 14cm long R12 000–15 000 89 A Victorian silver inkstand, Joseph Angell I & Joseph Angell II, London, 1841 rectangular, with pierced gallery, raised on four acanthus-leaf and paw feet, fitted with a pair of silver-mounted glass inkwells flanking a central container with leaf-shaped base and chamberstick cover with detachable sconce and conical snuffer, double pen depressions, inscribed ‘Presented to The Revd Joseph Bush by the Parishioners of Long Ashton, Somerset, as a Token of esteem and regard, on his retiring from the Curacy of that Parish. A.D. 1841’, one inkwell with repair, one leaf replaced, 1045g of weighable silver, 28cmwide R9 000–12 000 90 A Victorian silver cake basket, HDW & Co, Sheffield, 1847 of shaped pierced outline with fruiting vines, the moulded body with seven engraved panels, one with a vacant cartouche, the conforming swing handle engraved with a crest, raised on a circular reeded foot, 1005g, 30cm diameter R6 000–8 000 88 89 90 39