Lot 648
  • 648

AN AMERICAN SILVER PUNCH STRAINER, JOHN MOULINAR, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1740-45

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • marked twice on base I.M in rectangle.
  • length 5 3/4 in.
  • 14.6 cm
bowl pierced as a daisy, hook opposite handle.

Provenance

R. T. Haines Halsey (1865–1942)
Jonathan Trace, February 1985

Exhibited

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906, 1911
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1932
Museum of the City of New York, 1937

Condition

repairs to handle terminals, extra solder to hook, dents to edges of bowl
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