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Paul Storr (Westminster 1771 - Tooting 1844)
Price On Request A Magnificent Pair of George III Entrée Dishes and CoversSilver & old-Sheffield London, 1820 Maker's mark of Paul Storr Fully hallmarked to the bases, and covers, part marked to the detachable tops and finials The warming bases in old-Sheffield marked H.R Length across handles:35cm, 13.7in Weighable silver:4,500g, 144ozs 12dwt The bases decorated with a shell, anthemion and gadrooned border. The fluted detachable tops with acorn and oak leaf finials. One side engraved with the coat-of-arms of Armory family of St Anne's near Bristol co. Somerset, Bunratty Castle co Clare and Boston USA. The other side and bases with the family crest Artist Biography:Son of Thomas Storr of Westminster, first silver-chaser later innkeeper, born 1771. Apprenticed c'1785. Before his first partnership with William Frisbee in 1792 he worked at Church Street, Soho, which was the address of Andrew Fogelberg, This is also the address at which Storr's first separate mark is also entered. First mark entered as plateworker, in partnership with William Frisbee, 2 May 1792. Address: 5 Cock Lane, Snow Hill. Second mark alone, 12 January 1793. Address: 30 Church Street, Soho. Third mark, 27 April 1793. Fourth 8 August 1794. Moved to 20 Air Street, 8 October 1796, (where Thomas Pitts had worked till 1793). Fifth mark, 29 November 1799. Sixth, 21 August 1807. Address 53 Dean Street, Soho. Seventh, 10 February 1808. Ninth, 21 October 1813. Tenth, 12 September 1817. Moved to Harrison Street, Gray's Inn Road, 4 March 1819, after severing his connection with Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. Eleventh mark, 2 September 1883. Address: 17 Harrison Street. Twelfth and last mark, 2 September 1833. Heal records him in partnership with Frisbee and alone at Cock Lane in 1792, and at the other addresses and dates above, except Harrison Street. Storr married in 1801, Elizabeth...
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Benjamin Pyne (Devon - London 1732)
Price On Request A Rare George I Silver Hand BellSilver London, 1719 Maker's mark of Benjamin Pyne Height: 11.5cm, 4 1/2in Weight: 260g 8oz 6dwt Britannia standard, with a ball finial to the baluster handle, the body with a girdle. Artist Biography:Son of Humfry Pyne late of St Mary Ottery in the County Devon gentleman deceased, apprenticed to George Bowers...
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Thomas Pitts
Price On Request A Magnificent Neo-Classical Nine-Basket Epergne CentrepieceSilver George III London, 1788 Maker's mark of Thomas Pitts. Total weight: 7,174.7g, 230 oz 14 dwt Height: 57.1cm, 22.5in Width 71.1cm, 28in Depth: 52cm, 20.5in. Marked on stand, arms and baskets Bearing the crest and coats-of-arms of Sir Peter Pole 2nd Baronet of Wolverton With eight foliate scroll branches issuing flori-form...
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Benjamin Smith Digby Scott
Price On Request THE FOLEY WINE COOLERSA Pair of George III Silver-Gilt Wine-Coolers, Collars & Liners in the Egyptian Style London, 1805 Maker's mark of Digby Scott & Benjamin Smith Retailed By Rundell, Bridge And Rundell after a design By Jean-Jacques Boileau.The crest is that of Foley for Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley of Kidderminster, (1780-1833). Height: 11½ in. (29.2...
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Paul Storr (Westminster 1771 - Tooting 1844)
Price On Request A Highly Important Three Piece Centrepiece GarnitureSilver London, 1817 Maker's mark of Paul Storr Retailed by Rundell, Bridge & Rundell Bearing The coat-of-arms of Talbot for Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2 nd Earl Talbot of Hensol Height: the pair 53 cm, 20.8in; the single 80 cm, 31.4in Weight: 42 811 g, 376oz 8dwtProvenance: Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2 nd Earl Talbot...
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