Lot 605
  • 605

AN AMERICAN SILVER CASTER, ZACHARIAH BRIGDEN, BOSTON, CIRCA 1780

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • marked on base Z+B in rectangle (Kane mark B).
  • height 5 3/8 in.
  • 13.7 cm
one side engraved with block initials MD, the other side with later script initials H.W.McD.

Provenance

Jonathan Trace, July 1983

Exhibited

Seattle Art Museum, 1991-96

Literature

Antiques, vol. 108, Nov. 1975, p. 908
Kane 1998 p. 211

Condition

good
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