Lot 3103
  • 3103

An American Silver Fruit Dish, Retailed By George Shreve & Co., San Francisco, CA, 1870

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • marked on base with maker's mark of Gorham Mfg. Co, Providence, RI, date letter for 1870, and retailer's mark
  • Silver
  • length 10 1/2 in.
  • 26.6cm
the fluted scallop-shell bowl with perching figure of a cockatoo, raised on screw-off coral-form support

Condition

screw of support pushed up a little into shell but not through, one of the tail feathers dented slightly out of shape
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