Lot 451
  • 451

AN AMERICAN SILVER PIPE LIGHTER, PETER RIKER & PHILIP CLAPP, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1802-1808

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • marked on base RIKER&CLAPP in rim conforming rectangle.
  • length 8 7/8 in.
  • 22.5 cm
pierced circular bowl on a pierced foot.

Literature

'American Silver at Winterthur', Ian M.G. Quimby, p. 280, fig. 245

Condition

bowl with some dings, wood handle with small loss underneath at join
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Catalogue Note

The mate to this pipe lighter is in The Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum and is listed in Martha Gandy Fales, American Silver in The Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum, 1958, fig. 136.