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A George III rectangular snuffer tray made in London in 1763 by Ebenezer Coker, engraved with the original scratch weight of 9 Troy Ounces 15 dwt..
Price: £950.00

A George V toast rack with lyre handles made in Sheffield in 1917 by James Dixon and Sons.

Price: £350.00

A Victorian pair of menu or place card holders made in London in 1895 by William Richard Corke, crested for Baron Sir John Schroder (1825-1910).
Price: £345.00

John Henry William Schroder (1825-1910) was the fourth of twelve children of Heinrich, Baron Schroder (1784-1883). The Schroder family were one of the leading merchant concerns in Hamburg and by the early nineteenth century had established both trading and banking links with Great Britain. In 1841 John Henry William Schroder joined his father's firm in London and watched it rise in importance. By the 1870s and 1880s John Henry William was taking a lead in the business and, among many important commercial transactions, he also began the family collection of renaissance silver and objects.

John Henry William was a prominent philanthropist (one obituary commented that John Henry William ''gave more in charity than all the rest of the Germans in this country put together'). He was also a prominent art collector, his collection raising £138,000 in 1910, and horticulturalist, winning three Royal Horticultural Society gold medals and ten silver medals between 1891 and 1904. He was entitled to the use the title Baron or Freiherr through his descent from Heinrich, Baron Schroder but in 1892 he was also created an English Baronet. On his death in 1910 Baron Sir John Schroder of the Dell (his baronetcy taking the name of his estate in Britain) the value of his estate was just over £2,000,000.

A George III double-ended egg cup, by Sebastian Crespell London 1824, crested for John Poulett, 5th Earl Poulett (1783-1864) .
Price: £285.00

John Poulett, 5th Earl Poulett (1783-1864) was educated at Harrow and Brasenose College, Oxford. He later held several positions in the Somerset Militia. In 1809, it was reported in the Gentleman's Magazine that he had married "the sister of Mrs. Farquharson" at Weymouth (although there seem to be no other references to this marriage) and in 1820 he married the Hon. Charlotte Portman at the British Embassy in Paris. He inherited the Earldom of Paulet in 1819, shortly before his second marriage, and is notable for being one of the 22 stalwarts who voted against the 3rd reading of the Reform Bill in 1832.

3 egg cups available

A small (base diameter 11cm) pierced dish ring, by Pairpoint Brothers London 1929 .
Price: £245.00

The firm that became Pairpoint Brothers was founded in 1848 by Edward Pairpoint who had worked for the leading retailer Lambert's. It continued in the family until the mid twentieth century. The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmiths' Trade Journal of February 1937 commented of the firm that:

Of the place occupied by the four brothers Pairpoint in the silver world ... little is necessary to be said for their silver mark ... may be seen in every retail silver merchants window in London. It is admitted on all sides by experts, sometimes with a sigh of regret, sometimes with a grin of malice, that "Pairpoint" copies of ancient patterns are dangerously near being indistinguishable from the originals, whilst their new manufactures carry one back to the days when the master silversmiths employed the first artists of the day to assist them in their productions "devised in love and cunningly."

A George III Old Sheffield Plate mazarin (49 cm wide) with tinned underside, circa 1790.

Price: £195.00

Gordon Crosskey notes on page 234 of his 2011 Old Sheffield Plate: A History of the 18th century plated trade that 'plated [mazarins] of any period are very rare items. Indeed, the S[heffield] A[ssay] O[ffice] books , at least up until 1800, do not record any being made in silver , hence it is likely that few , if any, plated examples were made by Sheffield firms'. Crosskey found that Parker and Wakelin of London had sold two plated mazarins in 1773 (one for £3 3s and one for £2 12s 6d) and illustrates one mazarin by Matthew Boulton with a tinned underside and two examples from the first quarter of the nineteenth century.