Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first a sugar caster with mark of William Gibson & John Langman, London (1896), paneled form with decorative piercing to cover, armorial engraving of a song bird, engraved with the proverb "
Anima Esuriens Etiam Amarum Pro Dulci Sumet." (When you are hungry, even bitter food tastes sweet) to lower body, retailed by Goldsmiths Company on Regent Street (8.5 in., 9 troy oz.) (very good estate condition); the second a circular salver, mark of "RH" in a rectangular punch, London (1873) hallmarks, with lion rampant armorial engraving (6.25 in. diameter, 5.4 troy oz.) (some denting).
14.45 total troy oz.
Private Collection, Raleigh, NC