Silver & Silver-plated items
When it comes to antique silverware, the size and weight of objects does not always determine value. Grand works by the likes of London-based Huguenot Paul de Lamerie or the Germain family in Paris have acquired huge status and value, while small objects such as nutmeg graters, early spoons or vesta cases can command high sums as they have a strong specialist collecting base.
The system of silver hallmarks serves as a quality control, giving an official stamp from showing the metal is of requisite purity, but the marks (or punches) also reveal the year, the place of origin and the identity of the maker, providing pieces of silverware with their own stamped passport of information.

Medals: not just for the military
13 June 2022Spotlight on honours sold recently includes courageous lifesavers from civilian backgrounds.

Previews: Jewellery, watches and silver
13 June 2022A look ahead to auction house and dealer highlights this summer.

York teapot served up in Harrogate
06 June 2022Highland Antiques brings a 19th century silver teapot from York to the second Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative Antiques & Fine Art Fair of the year.

Make your royal mark: Royal commemorative hallmarks
30 May 2022Goldsmiths’ Company librarian Eleni Bide on commemorative hallmarks

Golf tees off in Shanghai
30 May 2022Estimated at £120-150, this modest 7in (17cm) high Chinese export silver golfing trophy sold for £5500 at Bourne End Auction Rooms (17.5% buyer’s premium).

Mary, Queen of Scots silver casket sold to Scottish museum for £1.8m
24 May 2022A casket believed to have once belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots has been bought by the National Museum of Scotland with help from donors and art funds.

With this marriage chest I thee wed
23 May 2022Translating simply as ‘a box with drawers’ but so much more exotic than that, a rare Spanish Renaissance caja con cajones was the outstanding lot at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood’s (25% buyer’s premium) quarterly fine art sale in Exeter.

Trunk and drunk at the same time for a party
16 May 2022This remarkable Baccarat tantalus in the form of an elephant and howdah sold at Can$120,000 (£75,000) at an auction in Victoria, British Columbia.

Farnham antiques centre targeted by thieves
12 May 2022A Farnham antiques centre is hoping to track down items stolen after a break in last week.

Titanic twists of fate: tale of two auction lots in the US and UK
11 May 2022Fate played a cruel hand in the case of two Titanic passengers whose stories have come to light through recent auction lots.

Snappy Dresser rewarded at £21,000
02 May 2022The latest design sale at Roseberys featured this Aesthetic movement silver and ivory claret or water jug designed by Christopher Dresser.

Xianfeng’s flask comes to auction
02 May 2022Alastair Gibson Auctions has secured a remarkable Chinese imperial object with a Second Opium War provenance for a sale in London in the summer.

Kendall carved out a reputation for quality
02 May 2022This large oak Orientalist carving, 'Eastern Slave Girl', is by the Victorian woodcarver Thomas Henry Kendall.

Indian pieces including jewellery owned by the mother of the Maharajah Duleep Singh attract bids at Bonhams
25 April 2022The Islamic and Indian Art sale at Bonhams (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) on March 29 was topped by a diamond and emerald set gold pendant from the collection of Maharani Jindan Kaur (1817-63).

Chaise longue value lies in the maker
11 April 2022Knowledgeable bidders spot a design by Owen Jones on offer in North Yorkshire

Rothschild name tempts bidders
04 April 2022Provenance adds cachet to a varied selection offered in regional sale after London first dibs

Menagerie of pin cushions provides creature comforts
28 March 2022Appealing to a range of different types of collectors, particularly aficionados of sewing antiques, Victorian and Edwardian animal pin cushions have their own niche in the novelty silver field.

Admiral’s prize money paid for a splendid service
28 March 2022This 22oz George II serving dish by Paul de Lamerie (London 1747) was formerly part of the service commissioned by Admiral George Anson (1697-1762).

Warwick vase cast became prize presented by Victoria
28 March 2022Estimated at £20,000-30,000, this cast of the Warwick vase by John Samuel Hunt, London 1845, sold for £32,000.

Important piece of Victorian silver made to commemorate largest art exhibition in the UK rediscovered in Macclesfield
28 March 2022With more than 16,000 works on display, 'Art Treasures of Great Britain', held in a temporary iron-and-glass structure built in the Old Trafford area of Manchester in 1857, remains the largest art exhibition to be held in the UK.

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