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An amazing kilo of silver

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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This isn't mine, just something that one of the dealers I've purchased from has recently listed.

This piece is massive. Holds nearly 1.5 liters, weighs over a kilo of silver, and stands about 9" tall!

I thought @asheland and @ricko at least would appreciate it.

A very large size George III sterling silver tankard of baluster form with a domed lid. Good plain style. The handle has ornamental strapwork topped by an attractive thumbpiece. To the front there is a large hand engraved armorial within a decorative cartouche. Contains 1480 ml, 3 pints. Weight 1104 grams, 35.4 troy ounces. Height 23 cm. Spread 18 cm. Diameter of top 11.2 cm. Dublin 1772. Maker Charles Townsend. £5,950

http://www.waxantiques.com/antique-silver/d/antique-irish-silver-lidded-tankard/342340

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow that's awesome, I like it !!! :)

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss... That is very impressive.... Beautiful engraving as well....Cheers, RickO

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,714 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That’s awesome!!!

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  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gorgeous piece.

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,760 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The engraving makes it

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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Really beautiful tankard.

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've got an example that is similar--within a year or two. But it's lighter @ 28.1 troy ounces and its capacity is about 30% less at just over 1000 ml. And where that one is Irish, and therefore much less common, mine is English, so not as scarce.

    _A good antique sterling silver tankard with domed hinged lid and plain baluster design. Good weight and large size. Strapwork to the top of the handle and an attractive cut out thumb piece. Uninscribed. Contains 1050 ml. Jacob Marsh, London, 1770.
    _

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Holy Shnikies! Thats huge!

    I just picked up my first pint tankard. At 13.5 ozt of sterling and no lid its quite a usable size and produced in 1899 not nearly as rare or valuable . Which I intend to use it often.
    The fired clay/pewter pieces I picked up in Regensburg Germany a few years ago. The lid has a porcelain insert with a painting of the cathedral. Its dated to around 1910.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,714 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great silver in this thread!!!

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