Lot 387
  • 387

AN AMERICAN SILVER SAUCEPAN, JOHN EWAN, CHARLESTON, S.C., CIRCA 1825

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on base twice J.EWAN in serrated rectangle.
  • length over handle 9 1/2 in.
  • 24.1 cm
front later engraved with wreath enclosing "Presented to Edward Stiles Hayne by his Uncle & Godfather Col. A. P. Hayne 1851." 

Provenance

Jackson/Gillooly, January 2004

Condition

presentation inscription with small dent, cover with some dings to rim, overall good
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Catalogue Note

Colonel Arthur Peronneau Hayne (1788-1867) grew up in Charleston and was a hero of the War of 1812, being brevetted Lieut. Col. for gallant conduct at the Battle of New Orleans.  He served in the Florida War as Commander of the Tennessee volunteers, then in the South Carolina House of Representatives before going as U.S. Naval agent in the Mediterranean for five years.  in 1858 he was appointed to fill the vacant seat for South Carolina in the U.S. Senate. Edward Stiles Hayne (1850-67) was actually his great-nephew, grandson of the Colonel's brother Governor Robert Hayne.