A few examples of appraisal values for
1863 SILVER PITCHER

• Rare Antebellum Louisiana
  Rare Antebellum Louisiana Plantation Coin (.900) Silver Five-Piece Tea Set, dated 1858 and monogrammed "M.C.B" for Margaret Cyrilla (Brownson) Bisland (1839-1906), mistress of Fairfax Plantation, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, by William R. Eaton, John Gordon and William Bogert for Ball, Black & Co., New York, including a hot water urn, h. 16", a teapot, h. 11", a cream jug, h. 16", a covered sugar bowl, h. 9-1/2", and a waste bowl, h. 5-3/4", each of slightly concave paneled ovoid form, with waisted neck and cavetto-domed foot, the panels decorated with engraved rococo scrolls below morning glories, the whole with milled anthemion banding, the lidded elements with cast and applied floral finials and crested handle(s), together with an associated English silverplate tray, l. 30-1/2", w. 20-1/2", each piece engraved, on the central panel, "M.C.B./June 24th/1858", 153.17 total t. oz. (weight excluding the tray; six pieces total). Provenance: Gift of the Bisland family to the Terrebonne Historical and Cultural Society. Margaret Cyrilla Brownson was born on September 30, 1839 in Brooklyn, New York to Judge John Brownson and his wife, the former Caroline Penn Stelle. Although born in Brooklyn, she was of most decidedly Southern ancestry; her maternal grandmother and namesake was Margaret Cyrilla Watts (1775-1829) of Natchez, the wife of Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Spanish governor of the Natchez district (1787-1797) and Louisiana (1797-1799). Margaret Brownson married Thomas Shields Bisland (1837-1909), a Natchez planter, in New York on June 24, 1858: the date inscribed on this set and doubtless the occasion of its presentation. (Six years earlier, her elder sister, Frances Ashton Bisland, had married Bisland's elder brother, John Rucker Bisland.) Thomas and Margaret moved to Fairfax Plantation in St. Mary Parish, a sugar concern formerly the property of Louisiana governor Joshua Baker (whose daughter had married yet a third Bisland brother). The 1860 census shows them to be a prosperous family, their worth recorded as $210,000. They had two surviving children before the start of the Civil War, in which Thomas served as quartermaster in the 26th Louisiana Infantry and later surgeon (he had been a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania before deciding to pursue the family planting business). Margaret Bisland and her children fled Fairfax, known as Camp Bisland during the war, before the April 12-13, 1863 Battle of Bisland. (The traditional shibboleth of southern silver being buried to protect it from the Yankees seems plausible here; Margaret and her children escaped to Natchez in an army ambulance, and although the camp was successfully defended, the battle raged even into the house itself!) After the war, Thomas and Margaret returned to a difficult life in Reconstruction Louisiana before inheriting the Bisland's Natchez property upon the death of Thomas' mother in 1873. There, Margaret supplemented the family's modest income composing piano works and writing poetry for the New Orleans Times-Democrat. She was known as "a woman of marked beauty and decided literary ability which under different circumstances might have brought her prominently into the world of letters." One of her poems, "Marguerite", was included in the anthology In My Lady's Name: Poems of Love and Beauty (New York: Putnam's, 1897). She died on January 7, 1906, pre-deceasing her husband by two years. A child of the couple, Elizabeth Ker (Bisland) Wetmore (1861-1929), would herself become a woman of letters, noted as a journalist and biographer of Lafcadio Hearn.
• Gothic Revival coffee service: coin
  Gothic Revival coffee service: coin silver, applied beaded borders, trefoil finial, bright cut decoration, lion and ring handles, 9-1/2 in. coffeepot, creamer, lidded sugar, two sets of monograms, pattern number 140, Gorham, 1863-1865, 72.92 oz.T. (three pieces). Creamer handle lacking ring, otherwise good condition.
• A 38-PIECE SOVIET SILVER AND NIELLO
  A 38-PIECE SOVIET SILVER AND NIELLO SERVICE, AFTER 1958...A 38-PIECE SOVIET SILVER AND NIELLO SERVICE, AFTER 1958 in Neo-Russian taste, the central bands featuring scrolling acanthus leaves, comprising a small covered teapot, pitcher, covered sugar bowl, basket, two napkin rings, a pair of tongs, a spoon, and thirty stemmed glasses of three different sizes: 11.3 cm (4 1/2 in.), 10.7 cm (4 1/4 in.), 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.), each marked with 875 standard, workmaster's mark K Kh K, save for the spoon, marked with 84 standard, date (1867) and effaced assayer's mark, workmaster's mark FI in Cyrillic for unknown master active 1863-1882 ; overall weight: 5 kg (160.75 ozt) CONDITION The set is in overall very good original condition with only minor darkening and wear to the niello. N.B. All lots are sold in as-is condition at the time of sale. Please note that any condition statement regarding works of art is given as a courtesy to our clients in order to assist them in assessing the condition. The report is a genuine opinion held by Shapiro Auctions and should not be treated as a statement of fact. The absence of a condition report or a photograph does not preclude the absence of defects or restoration, nor does a reference to particular defects imply the absence of any others. Shapiro Auctions, LLC., including its consultants and agents, shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
• Two Silver-Mounted Glass Pitchers
  Two Silver-Mounted Glass Pitchers 19th/20th Century comprising a Victorian claret with engraved monogram 'C' within a circular cartouche on the neck and marked for William and George Sissons, Sheffield, 1863, and a German water pitcher marked for Lazarus Posen, Frankfurt. the Victorian example marked for Sterling, the German example marked '800' Height of taller 9 1/2 inches.
• LARGE COIN SILVER TEA SERVICE, 8
  LARGE COIN SILVER TEA SERVICE, 8 PCS INC. TIFFANY, BALL...New York coin and sterling silver tea service, circa 1860, eight (8) associated pieces including Kettle on Stand, Tea and Coffee Pots, Milk Jug and Creamer with hinged covers, sugar bowl and 2 waste bowls, all in a nearly identical grapeleaf pattern. Covered pieces feature grape cluster finials and naturalistic handles; all have elaborate grape, leaf and vine repousse decoration and circular, naturalistic branch decorated feet. Teapot, sugar bowl and smaller waste bowl are marked for retailer Ball, Black and Co. with additional hallmarks or maker's marks for Charter, Cann & Dunn (New York, 1848-1863); large waste bowl is marked "Ball, Tompkins & Black Successors to Marquand & Co"; cream pitcher has only Charter Cann and Dunn marks; milk pitcher is stamped TIFFANY & CO. ENGLISH STERLING 925-1000 550 BROADWAY"; Kettle and coffee pot lack CC&D mark and instead have Ball, Black & Co marks with WF in rectangle. Note: Ball, Tompkins & Black, successors to Marquand & Co., later became Ball, Black & Co. and were regarded as one of the country's most important silver and jewelry retailers, eventually being overtaken by rival Tiffany & Co. This service descended in the same New York family to present consignor and features a variety of family monograms: Coffeepot, Kettle, and large waste bowl are monogrammed SBS to A_B Dec. 6 1860; Smaller waste bowl is monogrammed SBH to SWR Oct. 7, 1851; milk jug is monogrammed ABM, other pieces are monogrammed FJB. All descended in the same New York family to present consignor. Heights range from 5" to 15". Combined weight: 223.84 oz troy. Private Tennessee estate, by descent from a New York family. Condition: Overall very good condition with a few scattered minor scratches and dents in general. Milk jug (monogrammed ABW) has 1" dent to side and possible repair to handle. Kettle handle lacks ferrules and has resulting looseness at joints.
• VICTORIAN SILVER AND CUT CRYSTAL
  VICTORIAN SILVER AND CUT CRYSTAL CLARET PITCHER Mark of Robert Hennel III, London (1863), all over floral pattern to cut glass, the silver pedestal and hinged spout with matching engraved floral patterns and gadroon borders, scrolled silver handle; presented in an Elkington wood and leather veneer case, with aubergine silk and velvet lined interior.
• FIVE PIECE NEW YORK COIN SILVER TEA
  FIVE PIECE NEW YORK COIN SILVER TEA SERVICE WITH SILVER...American, mid to late 19th century, urn forms with engraved decoration, acorn finial, scroll handles, ivory spacers, no monograms, marks for William Gale & Son (New York, NY 1850-1853; 1854-1857; and again 1863-1866), 166.37 oz. T., including 17-1/2 in. hot water urn with matching coffee pot, teapot, covered sugar and creamer; with two handle silver plate tray, marks for F. B. Rogers Silver Co., 29 in. Provenance: Private Memphis, Tennessee Collection Note: ?This lot contains animal or plant material that may be restricted under federal, state and/or local law. Prospective bidders should check all applicable government wildlife restrictions prior to placing a bid. The buyer is solely responsible for obtaining any necessary licenses or permits from federal, state and/or local authorities applicable to their purchase or transport of the object. Please note that bidders in New Jersey may not bid on any lots containing elephant ivory, mammoth ivory, or rhinoceros horn. Condition: coffee pot handle loose at spacer; sugar base bent and does not sit flat; hot water with replaced burner, all with light scratches, small dents and wear
• VICTORIAN REPOUSSE STERLING
  VICTORIAN REPOUSSE STERLING SILVER CREAMER E & J BARNARD, LONDON 1863, 8.3 OZTVictorian Repousse Sterling Silver Creamer E & J Barnard, London 1863,, Dimensions: 8.3 ozt
• T. GOWDEY NASHVILLE COIN SILVER
  T. GOWDEY NASHVILLE COIN SILVER CREAMEROrnate Nashville, Tennessee retailed cream pitcher, Rococo Revival style repousse design with floral, foliate and scroll decoration, central cartouche monogrammed WMBE to MC, and acanthus overlaid S-scroll handle, atop four scrolled feet; marked on underside "Gowdy" (Thomas Gowdey, b. 1795, working Nashville, 1825-d. 1863). 6" H, 5.675 oz troy. Circa 1850. Note: the misspelling on Gowdy's name in this mark, and on other Gowdey pieces, suggests they were made elsewhere and retailed in Nashville. Provenance: Private Arkansas Collection. Condition: 1/2"L deep scratch to side underneath top terminus of handle, otherwise very good condition.
• A Charleston Coin Silver
  A Charleston Coin Silver Presentation Creamer and Sugar Grosjean & Woodward New York act. 1853-1862 ret. Hayden & Whilden (H. Sidney Hayden & William G. Whilden) Charleston SC act. c. 1855-1863; pear-shaped body with lobed neck and cover foliate and floral repoussé and chasing the creamer with North Wind mask spout; engraved presentation inscription "To Dr. Geo. S. Pelzer from the Howard Association of Charleston" weight 38.80 troy ozs. Note: The Howard Association was a mid-19th century benevolent organization which ministered to victims of yellow fever. It was named for the British philanthropist and reformer John Howard (1726-1790) and was active in several Southern port cities including Charleston New Orleans Memphis and Norfolk. Dr. Pelzer was one of several Charleston gentlemen who recorded weather observations to study linkages between weather and diseases particularly yellow fever. The practice began in the late 18th century under the auspices of the Medical Society of South Carolina and later the Charleston Board of Health and continued until approximately 1870. Dr. Pelzer is shown in the Medical Society and Board of Health records as a weather observer from 1859 to 1867 with the home address 371 King Street. Reference: "Unto the Least of These: The Howard Association and Yellow Fever" Southern Medical Journal 1992; Doty Stephen R. History of Weather Observations Charleston South Carolina 1738-2005 p.10.
• PRESENTATION SILVER TEA SERVICE
  PRESENTATION SILVER TEA SERVICE COMMEMORATING THE CIVIL WAR NAVAL VICTORY OF COMMODORE JOHN RODGERS (1812-1882) AS COMMANDER OF THE...PRESENTATION SILVER TEA SERVICE COMMEMORATING THE CIVIL WAR NAVAL VICTORY OF COMMODORE JOHN RODGERS (1812-1882) AS COMMANDER OF THE MONITOR WEEHAWKEN, JUNE 17, 1863, whose ship USS Weehawken defeated the CSS Atlanta on June 17, 1863; Gale & Willis, New York, circa 1863, sterling silver, the large scale set of pyriform shape atop circular bases with repousse floral sprays and scrollwork above oval cartouches each piece engraved with armorial crests, including a teapot, coffee pot, two-handled covered sugar bowl, cream jug, and a waste bowl, with dolphin finials; together with a matching Gale & Willis tall ewer with anchors and loose chain to shoulder, two goblets and a tazza; total weight: 211.50 ozt (9) Provenance: By descent in the John Rodgers family, Sion Hill Estate, Havre de Grace, MD
• FIVE PIECE NEW YORK COIN SILVER TEA
  FIVE PIECE NEW YORK COIN SILVER TEA SERVICEAmerican, mid 19th century, urn forms with grape and vine decoration, ivory spacers, monogram "Wray", marks for William Gale & Son and Gale & Hayden (New York, NY, working 1850-1853; 1854-1857; and again 1863-1866), 97.15 oz. T., including 12-1/4 in. coffee pot with matching milk jug, covered sugar and waste; with similar silver plate teapot and large two handle silver plate tray Note: ?This lot contains animal or plant material that may be restricted under federal, state and/or local law. Prospective bidders should check all applicable government wildlife restrictions prior to placing a bid. The buyer is solely responsible for obtaining any necessary licenses or permits from federal, state and/or local authorities applicable to their purchase or transport of the object. Please note that bidders in New Jersey may not bid on any lots containing elephant ivory, mammoth ivory, or rhinoceros horn. Provenance: Western North Carolina Collection Condition: coin silver with light scratches and minor wear; silver plate teapot with wear and loss to plate; tray replated and wear
• A Victorian silver claret jug,
  A Victorian silver claret jug, George John Richards & Edward Charles Brown, London 1863, with hinged cover and scroll handle, engraved decoration and an armorial, 35cm high, approximately 694gm/Note: Armorial of Bayly (Bristol)
• A Fine Civil War Regimental
  A Fine Civil War Regimental Presentation Coin Silver Pitcher c. 1861 Bigelow Brothers & Kennard Boston wc. 1845-1863 engraved with vignettes of war camps the tents marked "Co. B" and "N.E.G."; the large void cartouche flanked by soldiers in dress and fighting uniforms above an eagle with banner marked "Our Nation's Honor The Bond of Union" over a "B" height 12 in. weight 30.35 troy ozs. Note: "In 1861 the New England Guard a Boston military organization was nearing its half-century mark. Organized in 1812 for almost fifty years it had been one of the best drilled companies in the Commonwealth. From the beginning its personnel consisted of the very finest afforded by the foremost city in New England; men who were capable of appreciating and if need be exemplifying its motto viz.: "Our Nation's Honor the Bond of Union." When 1861 began the Guards under the command of Captain Harrison Ritchie constituted Company B of the Second Battalion of Infantry. In those days military spirit ran high for the war between North and South seemed imminent." Reference: Alfred Seeley Roe The Twenty-Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers 1861-1866 New England Guard Regiment 1907 Worcester MA pg. 9.
• CHARLESTON COIN SILVER JUG,
  CHARLESTON COIN SILVER JUG, HAYDEN WHILDENAmerican, scalloped pear form, floral decoration, spout with mask, twig handle, ivory spacers, marks for retailer Hayden & Whilden (Charleston, South Carolina, working 1855-1863) and maker Gale & Willis (New York, NY, working 1859-1862), 22.94 oz. T., 8-1/2 in. Provenance: Private Collection, Asheville, North Carolina Note: â—‰This lot contains animal or plant material that may be restricted under federal, state and/or local law. Prospective bidders should check all applicable government wildlife restrictions prior to placing a bid. The buyer is solely responsible for obtaining any necessary licenses or permits from federal, state and/or local authorities applicable to their purchase or transport of the object. Please note that bidders in New Jersey may not bid on any lots containing elephant ivory, mammoth ivory, or rhinoceros horn. Condition: finial pushed in and bent, light scratches, and wear
• Charleston coin silver creamer,
  Charleston coin silver creamer, sugar: pear shapes with scalloped rim, conforming dome tops, twig and leaf handles, masked figure at spout, retailed by Hayden & Whilden (Charleston, South Carolina, working 1855-1863), maker Grosjean & Woodward (New York City, working 1840-1853), monogrammed "ECB", 37.25 oz.T., sugar 7 x 7-1/2 x 5-1/2 in., creamer 6-1/2 x 5-1/2 x 4-1/2 in. Several small dents, light scratches, bent finials. Private Collection, Charleston, South Carolina
• GORHAM COIN SILVER COFFEE
  GORHAM COIN SILVER COFFEE SERVICEGorham Coin Silver Coffee Service in the Neo-Grec Taste , c. 1863-1865, retailer's mark rubbed, incl. 2 coffee pots, covered sugar and creamer, each with pineapple finial, Greek key borders and beading, coffee pot h. 11 5/8 in., total wt. 104.50 troy ozs . Provenance: Williamson-LeBlanc Collection, Cornstalk Fence House, New Orleans
• (2) ENGLISH VICTORIAN STERLING
  (2) ENGLISH VICTORIAN STERLING CREAMER & SUGAR(lot of 2) English Victorian sterling silver cream pitcher and sugar bowl, William Wrangham Williams, c.1863-1864, retailed by Lambert & Co., Coventry Street, London, with scrolled handles, engraved scroll and foliate design, heraldic crest with a Pegasus courant, banner with motto reading: "Nil Conscire sibi," possibly for the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Oakham, gilt washed interiors, London hallmarks, creamer: 5.25"h, sugar: 4 3/8"h; 22.74ozt total
• GEORGE III SILVER PRESENTATION
  GEORGE III SILVER PRESENTATION PITCHER WITH AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HISTORY Mark of Thomas Whipham & Charles Wright, London (1767) hallmarks, later repousse scrolling and foliate decoration throughout, raised on a round gadrooned foot, hinged lid with acanthus leaf motifs, and topped with a pineapple finial. Central cartouche with engraved inscription reading "Presented to / Captain Henry A. Gadsen by Nathan Hurst, Mary Ann Hurst, / Sarah Hurst, and Thomas Brittain, / in acknowledgment of his genuine kindness, / and during their efforts to recover / from Hospital in Charleston, / Captain Fred. Hurst/ 48th N.Y.S.V. / Wounded in the attack / on Fort Wagner / 18th July, 1863. / Dieu Vous Garde ".
• TIFFANY SILVER 62ND CONGRESS
  TIFFANY SILVER 62ND CONGRESS PRESENTATION PITCHERAmerican sterling silver presentation pitcher, Tiffany & Company Makers, c.1902-1907, directorship of Charles T. Cook, model 82140, engraved: "presented to the Hon. William Sulzer, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, of the LXII Congress (1911-1913), by his fellow members of the Committee," with twenty engraved names of fellow committee members, including Henry De La Warr Flood of Virginia, John Nance Garner of Texas, George Swinton Legare of South Carolina, William Graves Sharp of Ohio, Cyrus Cline of Indiana, Jefferson Monroe Levy of New York, James Michael Curley of Massachusetts, John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, Robert Edward Difenderfer of Pennsylvania, William Shields Goodwin of Arkansas, Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina, Edward Waterman Townsend of New Jersey, Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi, William Brown McKinley of Illinois, Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin, Ira Wells Wood of New Jersey, Richard Bartholdt of Missouri, George Winthrop Fairchild of New York, Nathan Edward Kendall of Iowa, and Joseph Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania, separation along seam at underside of handle, some denting, approx 15.5"h, 51.31ozt **Note: William Sulzer (1863-1941), nicknamed Plain Bill Sulzer, served as the 39th Governor of New York in 1913 and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1895-1912.; John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States, 1933-1941**