Silver2treasure offer for sale this delightful silver bread basket or fruit dish. It has a pretty oval shape which some describe as canoe shaped with a pierced decoration to the sides and a reeded ribbon border. It was made by the good Sheffield maker of James Dixon and sons from their Cornish Place factory in Sheffield and is hallmarked for the year 1911 making this piece almost an antique at 98 years of age. It has good crisp hallmarks and is of good gauge of silver and weighs in at 240 grammes.
It measures 10 inches long, 5.5 inches wide and sits 2.5 inches tall.
Antique Silver German Candlesticks
Featured item of the week this week is this fabulous Pair of Large Antique German Silver Candlesticks. They are very ornate and have rounded bodies with baluster shaped bases and they have an Art Nouveau look to them. There are no straight lines to them whatseover. They are extremely decorative having an embossed floral, leaf and scroll patterns. At the top of the bases towards the middle of them is an engraved pattern which I can best describe as an icicle curtain. They stand on 4 equally decorative wide scroll feet which have the embossed floral decoration on them. On the wide bases of each there are two large ornate oval shaped cartouches and one is engraved with "1871-1901" and in the other one there are two very very fancy entwined letters of "AB".
