Lot 688
  • 688

AN AMERICAN SILVER CANN, JACOB HURD, BOSTON, CIRCA 1735

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • marked left of handle Hurd in italics in oval (Kane mark C).
  • height 5 1/4 in.
  • 13.3 cm
the front engraved circa 1810 Sarah Bishop.

Provenance

American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, December 5, 1936, lot 473
Elaine Melchior, New York (1939)
Firestone & Parsons, Boston, October 1986

Literature

Hollis French, Jacob Hurd and His Sons, Nathaniel and Benjamin, Silversmiths 1702-1758, 1939, no. 74, p. 35
Kane 1998, p. 588

Condition

one small rim split- not through, overall good
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