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Lot 3045
A George III Silver Sugar Basket and Pair of Sterling Silver Salt Cellars
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
First, a sugar basket, mark of William Plummer, London (1779?); reticulated body with draped garland, foliate decoration, and urn motifs, topped with a swing handle, without monogram (3 3/4 in.); and a pair of American sterling silver salt cellars, mark of Watson Company, pattern number 4617, pierced body retaining glass inserts, raised on four ball feet, with script monograms.

9.85 total troy oz. (includes glass inserts)

Glass insert have been glued to salt cellars, difficult to remove, some minor scattered denting; sugar basket with dent to foot, not retaining glass insert