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Lot 3237
Two American Sterling Silver Cake Plates
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first, mark of Frank M. Whiting Co., pattern number 4990, with central engraving "Mary Horne and B. B. Van Buren / December 22-1869 - December 22-1908" (9 1/2 in. dia.); the second, mark of Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co., pattern number C3449, retail mark of Sylvan Bros., with central "CE" monogram; both reticulated forms raised on round feet (9 3/8 in dia.).

17.5 total troy oz.

Private Collection, Wilmington, North Carolina

Light surface wear, the first with some misshaping to rim.