Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Silver Basket Swing Handled Hallmarked Birmingham 1920 Walker & Hall offered for sale by silver2treasure.

This is a beautiful Solid Silver Circular Swing Handled Basket. The circular holder has a very decorative bright cut open work decoration to the sides with a gadrooned pattern running around the top rim and it is raised on 4 bracket feet. The pretty swing handle has a pierced decoration in the centre and it is raised on bracket feet. It has one fancy shaped cartouche which is still blank so it could be personalised and it comes with its blue glass liner

041dSilver Basket Ideal Fruit Bowl 800 Standard offered for sale by silver2treasure.

This is a very stylish 800 Standard Continental Silver Basket. It is rectangular in shape with a shaped top which has a rope twist pattern around the rim and it has wirework wavy sides. The plain solid base mirrors the shape of the top (only on a smaller scale) and this also forms the raised base foot. This would make an ideal fruit bowl and placed in the centre of a table or sideboard or indeed it would make an impressive bread basket