Silver & Silver-plated items

A seminal proto-modernist metalwork design by Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) emerged for sale in Edinburgh on October 14.

Once part of the contents of Skibo Castle, an exceptional Louis Napoleon gilt-bronze surtout de table suite by Ferdinand Barbedienne comes under the hammer at Tennants.

A pair of monumental silver candelabra with a royal provenance is going under the hammer at German auction house Wendl on October 28-31.

Relatively few Britannia Standard silver dinner services from the Queen Anne period are available to buy.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including The Charleston Museum acquiring a 1711 silver chalice

The auction record for an Edwardian novelty silver pin cushion beaten twice at the same sale at Kinghams (26% buyer’s premium) in Moreton-in-Marsh.

Dealer Esme Parish is moving on from her full-time role of offering antique silver from her base in Singapore.

Belief in divine ability to cure the sick persisted among Stuart heirs in exile even as the Jacobite dream died

A set of 24 Art Deco Gallia animalier knife rests hammered for $8000 (£5950) against a guide of $3000-5000 at an Objet sale at Wright (28% buyer’s premium) in Chicago, Illinois.

An unusual lot offered in the Fine Silver sale at Anderson & Garland (25% buyer’s premium) in Newcastle upon Tyne was a ‘pair’ of oval teapots and stands modelled as staved barrels: one a ‘period’ example with marks for John Harris, London 1786, the other by early Victorian maker John Terry (London 1838).

A rare Edwardian silver and enamel cigarette case was the unexpected highlight of a timed online sale held by Bushey Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Hertfordshire.

A recent sale at Moore Allen & Innocent (21% buyer’s premium) in Cirencester included a massive Victorian silver tray or salver by the prominent silversmith Edward Kerr Read (London 1873).

This 9ct gold pocket compendium with hallmarks for Alfred Dunhill & Sons, London, 1950, hammered at the lower end of a £15,000-20,000 estimate at Fellows in Birmingham on August 21.

Elektro was built in 1937 by industrial giant Westinghouse in Mansfield, Ohio, for the 1939 World’s Fair in New York: the first robot in the world that could walk, talk and even count on his fingers.

An Edwardian ‘Regent Plate’ teapot by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company of London sold to a UK bidder for £4300 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Adam Partridge in Liverpool.

Remarkably, given Chelsea FC’s modern-day huge spending and multi-year lucrative contracts, two of the squad who helped to win their first-ever league title in 1954-55 were amateurs.

Estimated at £10,000-15,000, a pair of Scottish Queen Anne tazze hammered for £16,000 at Dawsons (27.5% buyer’s premium) in Maidenhead, Berkshire on July 23.

Safavid examples from the north London dealer's collection find their latest homes after palace demolition