Lot 714
  • 714

AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD, JOHN CONEY, BOSTON, CIRCA 1710-20

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • marked IC crowned with a coney below (Kane mark C) left of handle and on base.
  • silver
  • height 6 1/2 in.
  • 16.5 cm
low domed cover with slightly shaped peak, cherub head at lower handle terminal, the front later engraved BHW, the base with scratch weight "oz 20-19."

Provenance

Reynolds Family of Cambridge, MA, 1980
Malcolm Stearns, Jr., Hobart House, Haddam, CT, November 1980

Condition

numerous dings, surface a little bright, as noted re: later initials on front
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