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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 10-24-2006 03:26 PM [01-2517] Great faces in silver From time to time great faces show up in silver and silverplate. We thought it would be fun to start a thread where we post photos of great silver faces. To get things started..... from a silverplate crumber or whisk tray: IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 10-24-2006 04:38 PM from Figural Face Water Pitcher IP: Logged
rian Posts: 169 Registered: Jan 2006	posted 10-24-2006 04:44 PM This is our Halloween thread, isn't it? Here is one of my favorites. You and June collect him also, I believe? IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 10-24-2006 05:12 PM A few years ago we put together a complete set of the early original Henry Hebbard "Mask" pattern, less a few serving pieces like a cheese scoop. Mask is a great pattern. Another great flatware face is Alvin's "Nuremberg": IP: Logged
jersey Posts: 1203 Registered: Feb 2005	posted 10-24-2006 05:31 PM Hello Scott! I have been dying to ask about the face on the crumber for years. It's on the Forum website. Does he have a name? I love the "Faces"! Jersey IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 10-24-2006 05:34 PM Old Father Wind from a quill knife IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 10-24-2006 05:55 PM Jersey, The crumber might have a pattern name but we have never done the research. We just love the face too. I don't remember the maker but I do remember it was silverplate - it is in offsite storage so it will not be accessible for a while. Maybe one of our resident silverplate collectors will recognize it. WEV - thanks for the friendly face IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 10-24-2006 06:36 PM Fangs for the memory: With Halloween approaching, I was preparing to post these scary looking wolves in the witches brew thread, but since they are silverplate and continental (French?) I have put them here. They are on 9" table forks, silver on brass, marked FRARET (A1) PLAQUE (PLAQUE is French for electroplate). IP: Logged
rian Posts: 169 Registered: Jan 2006	posted 10-24-2006 07:29 PM Here is another kindly face. Timid ghosts and goblins should eat their Halloween treats with Dominick and Haff's Renaissance. IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 10-25-2006 08:10 AM Just marked sterling. My guess is that it dates to +/- 1900-10: IP: Logged
Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 Registered: Apr 2000	posted 10-25-2006 09:48 AM Fun topic. I will try to post some silver faces this evening. Swarter, I think the pattern on your forks was originally made in sterling by Gorham in the 1880s. IP: Logged
ahwt Posts: 2334 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 10-25-2006 09:59 AM Here is, I think, the North Wind by Grosjean & Woodward for Hayden & Whilden. IP: Logged
DB Posts: 252 Registered: May 2006	posted 10-25-2006 10:16 AM Compliments Scott, this thread is fun.You might be interested that I saw this face on a pilar in Yale Now I hope you want to see some English faces: Face on foot of a John Jacobs salt London 1733 Face on foot of a David Henell salt, London 1766 Face on the handle of a cup and cover by Joseph William Story, London 1810 and finally various faces on 18thcentury dessertspoon,sugarspoon, ladle ------------------ Dorothea Burstyn IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 10-25-2006 02:07 PM In keeping with the approach of Holloween a couple of additional devilish faces: On the left, a Henry Hebbard pattern (1862 pattent) in coin from Wendell & Roberts (Albany}, and on the right, Whiting's Ivy (patent 1866) in Sterling from Thomas Goldsmith (Troy, NY) IP: Logged
ahwt Posts: 2334 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 10-25-2006 02:37 PM A Freeman Durgin warrior with some of his friends. IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 10-25-2006 03:23 PM ahwt What is the North Wind by Grosjean & Woodward found on? DB This thread is fun I hope it inspires more fun. I am not sure who/what the face is but it sure shows up in a lot of architecture. Thanks for the Yale reference. What is the theme of the dessert spoons? Father Christmas? Swarter thanks for the Hebbard/Whiting images. ahwt I see the second face. Is there more than two? The following faces are from our A Collector's View presentation A Collector's Eye - Antique Buckles & Pins (click here) IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 10-25-2006 03:24 PM One more: IP: Logged
ahwt Posts: 2334 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 10-25-2006 04:48 PM Scott, The North Wind is on a creamer, but I think I have seen it on water pitchers. The warrior has 8 friends. I will try to get a pictcher of them. IP: Logged
Dale Posts: 2132 Registered: Nov 2002	posted 10-25-2006 11:21 PM The crumber is by Reed and Barton. The pattern is associated with that firm's Renaissance pattern, but was not offered as such when new. The water pitcher is a copy of an aesthetic movement pottery piece. Forget the name. Father wind is also known as Old Man of the Mountain. It is named for a glass pattern which featured the same motif. Great thread Scott and June. IP: Logged
Pinsabigail Posts: 35 Registered: May 2003	posted 10-26-2006 04:22 PM Swarter's fang faces are the same as, or VERY similar to a Christofle silverplate pattern called Peau de Lion designed by Charles Rossigneux (1816-1909) in 1876 for Christofle. It was sold until 1914. IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 10-26-2006 04:54 PM Was there a Peau de Loup? IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 10-27-2006 01:34 PM marked; Godinger 4x6" IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 10-27-2006 06:09 PM This thread has so many images it takes awhile to load... We are closing this part. The thread continues Great faces in silver #2 (click here) IP: Logged

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