Silver & Silver-plated items

Extensive contents of Cumbrian castle take three days to sell in North Yorkshire auction

So much silver has sold based solely on melt value of late. One wonders exactly how many decent antiques and collectables will have been lost once the bubble has deflated.

Two lots of antique English silver trounced their estimates on the same day at New York state auction houses located less than 30 miles apart.

This 1642 silver medal by the German medallist Sebastian Dadler (1586-1657) celebrates the arrival in the Netherlands of Princess Mary (1631-60), eldest daughter of Charles I and sister of the future Charles II.

In many parts of the German-speaking world, it was once customary for a newly married couple to drink together from a silver or parcel gilt bridal beaker.

London numismatic auction house Morton & Eden is offering a silver plaquette by the great Dutch silversmith Paulus van Vianen (1570-1613).

Discovery recalls earliest American silversmith of African descent

Although 17th and 18th century Jamaican silver is some of the rarest colonial plate, two small waiters sold at auctions in the north of England in as many months.

One of the eight York Rose brooches given by Prince Albert to the bridesmaids who attended his marriage to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 sold for £15,000.

An extensive collection of art, antiques and silver from Corby Castle, one of Cumbria’s most historically important mansion houses, will go under the hammer in a three-day sale at Tennants from January 22-24.

Irish silver rarely appears at German auctions but when it does, it seldom goes unnoticed.

This horn casket was presented to King Edward VII on March 28, 1901 by the Worshipful Company of Horners.

The city of Newcastle enjoyed a long gold and silversmithing tradition.

Numerous pieces of British Aesthetic movement and Arts & Crafts silver were up for sale at Lempertz (26% buyer’s premium) in Cologne on November 21.

Elwin de Wolf, based in the Netherlands, has been collecting silver enamel boxes for around 20 years.