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New colonial-era big silver just arrived

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited December 13, 2016 10:31AM in U.S. Coin Forum

The Lidded Tankard
Sterling, London, 1770
1050 ml volume
20.5 cm height
877 grams
Jacob Marsh*, silversmith

With her siblings:

And with a handful of period-correct silver coinage, maybe counted out and waiting to hand to the barmaid for your room and board on the way to Boston or Philadelphia to discuss the Townshends Act or the Tea Act with your fellow conspirators...to keep her relevant to our passion for colonial-era chunks of silver:

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

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting to say the least.

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Her hallmarks...

    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
  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,982 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool!

    MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,813 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ah, I love that song: "Tankards aweigh, my boy! Tankards awa-a-ay!"

    ;)

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • earlycoinsearlycoins Posts: 282 ✭✭✭

    Magnificent!

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice.... I really like the large open top tankard.... If I saw that in an antique shop I would buy it... Cheers, RickO

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    Very nice.... I really like the large open top tankard.... If I saw that in an antique shop I would buy it... Cheers, RickO

    Thank you. Yep, that's a great piece. I actually used gold coins to "buy" it from the dealer in London. One krugerrand and two sovereigns:

    And to show scale of that piece:

    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
  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Imagine the storied history associated with that. :+1:

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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool and it would double as your new "Box Of 21" ;)

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss...Wow.... larger than I thought... and expensive...but looks like it is worth it. I have an RAF mug that I got years ago in Scotland (Navy days) at the RAF club. That is pewter, but still a prized possession....memories make it valuable. Back when I got the pewter mug... a silver one like yours would have been much cheaper...so many things (looking back) I regret not buying then. Cheers, RickO

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You must use it at least once!

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @asheland said:
    You must use it at least once!

    I use them all :)

    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
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is one of mine:
    Nashville, Tennessee, c.1820-30

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  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Incredible silver! As a person who was trained by a professional silversmith and once has a small silversmithing business, Nyberg Sterling, I appreciate those hand wrought items. I would estimate the first pictured tankard would take about 80 hours for an experienced silversmith to complete - the industrial revolution changed all that.

    I made a couple of mugs similar in shape to the one pictured on the left. It starts with a flat piece of 16 or 18 gauge sterling and goes through about 20 rounds of annealing and then planishing to "raise" the sterling to that shape - for myself it would take about 90 hours just to raise the metal, before the handle and base were wrought and soldered.

    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Raised silver is the best!

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Nysoto said:
    Incredible silver! As a person who was trained by a professional silversmith and once has a small silversmithing business, Nyberg Sterling, I appreciate those hand wrought items. I would estimate the first pictured tankard would take about 80 hours for an experienced silversmith to complete - the industrial revolution changed all that.

    I made a couple of mugs similar in shape to the one pictured on the left. It starts with a flat piece of 16 or 18 gauge sterling and goes through about 20 rounds of annealing and then planishing to "raise" the sterling to that shape - for myself it would take about 90 hours just to raise the metal, before the handle and base were wrought and soldered.

    Thank you for the insight, @Nysoto!

    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
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One of these days I should take a picture of my only Martele piece. :)

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  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss said:

    @asheland said:
    You must use it at least once!

    I use them all :)

    With Tea or Ale :smiley:

    Steve

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  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭

    Really cool Weiss...I like them all!

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  • RB1026RB1026 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭✭

    Exquisite collection! I LOVE early American history and those pieces are oozing with historical charm. Congrats and thanks for sharing the pics here!

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