Auctioneers

Full-blown repoussé ornamentation defined Baltimore silver in the antebellum period.

The auction at Roseberys London on November 17 includes, estimated at £600-1000, this Victorian silver trophy made by Edward Ker Reid (London, 1864).

The sale of maritime antiques at Charles Miller (24% buyer’s premium) in London on November 1 included a number of silver boating trophies from the Royal Naval Club & Royal Albert Yacht Club, Portsmouth – most of them well received by the collecting audience.

Dreweatts’ November 23 sale includes jewels from the collection of Renée Louise Marie de Rothschild (1927-2015).

The Singer 222K Featherweight is rated as one of the best sewing machines ever made.

A look at upcoming jewellery auction lots

Era of pop art and protests also brought fresh design beyond the earlier ‘tool’ template

Anglophile American lawyer’s excellent and extensive collection is sold in New York.

This fine First World War silver presentation model of the Vickers FB5 or Gunbus was made by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company (London 1916).

The most famous firm of the many silversmiths in the German city of Hanau in the late 19th century was Neresheimer & Söhne.

Henry Lee Shuttleworth (1882- 1960) worked for many years in the Indian Civil Service.

Queen Victoria gave many gifts to family, friends and servants, often commemorating notable events in her life.

This pair of trousers, sold for £7500 in Essex on November 9, was thought to have been worn by the 17th century court dwarf Sir Jeffrey Hudson (1619-82).

This Tiffany Aesthetic movement silver-gilt pepperette is engraved with the presentation inscription Given by TRH Prince & Princess of Wales, Xmas 1879.

Tory politician acquired the artist’s watercolours before London dealer raised the profile

Outside the John Patten collection at Lawrences of Crewkerne on October 12 were several other good-quality pictures boosting the bottom line.

Irish Georgian silver made outside Dublin and Cork comes with significant rarity value