Lot 572
  • 572

AN AMERICAN SILVER CANN, EDMUND MILNE, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1760

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • marked twice on base EM in rectangle.
  • height 5 1/4 in.
  • 13.3 cm
front engraved with large foliate monogram GFM.

Provenance

Philip H. Hammerslough Collection
Jackson/Gillooly, January 1985

Exhibited

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1956, no. 261

Literature

Philip H. Hammerslough, American Silver Collected by Philip H. Hammerslough, 1958, p. 6

Condition

lower body with several small dents, dent to foot rim, otherwise good
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