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Lot 172
Ornate Antique German Silverplate Standish and Three Fountain Pens
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Standish with circa 1910 company mark of Wurtemberg Metalware Factory, oval form with lobed front tray and pierced scrolling foliate pen stand behind two lidded cut crystal inkwells, raised on figural mask feet. (5 x 12 x 7 in.).
Pens include a sterling silver repousse handled pen with unmarked gilt nib (7 in.); the second pen with mother of pearl handle, gilt checkered engine turned ferrule, and gilt nib marked H. M. Co. / New York / 2" (some mis-shaping to nib tip); a wood handled pen marked E. Faber top ferrule, pen nib marked "The Russian Pen" (6 3/8 in.).

Private Collection of an Antiquarian, Charlotte, North Carolina

Some tarnish and bleed to plate, otherwise good estate condition, minute edge flakes to crystal. Overall good estate condition.