Lot 1236
  • 1236

An American silver beaker, John Veal Sr. and William Glaze, Columbia, South Carolina, 1838-1841

Estimate
200 - 300 USD
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Description

  • marked on base VEAL & GLAZE in serrated rectangle, with eagle and bust pseudo-hallmarks
  • silver
  • height 3 in.
  • 7.6 cm
the lower body formed of twelve panels, applied narrow beaded rim, engraved WD Boykin in script

Provenance

Margaret Nord, 1981

Condition

repair down one side, below rim and spot adjacent- possibly signs of handle removed; several small dents
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Catalogue Note

While their partnership was short-lived, William Glaze went on to found the Palmetto armory, making guns for Confederate troops, and "the shop of John Veal" was one of the businesses destroyed by General Sherman's burning of Columbia in 1865.