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Lot 271

Thirty-eight Pieces of Coin and Sterling Silver Flatware

2 – 12 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

US$600 - US$800

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Thirty-eight Pieces of Coin and Sterling Silver Flatware


GEORGE B. APPLETON (Salem, Massachusetts, fl. 1855-67): one coin cake server, approx. 62.0 grams.

ROBERT BROOKHOUSE (Salem, 1779-1866): three coin teaspoons, approx. 45.6 grams.

B.M. CHAMBERLAIN (Salem, 1818-92): one coin teaspoon, approx. 16.3 grams.

ALBERT COLES (New York, New York, fl. 1835-75): five coin teaspoons, engraved "Mary T. Wick", approx. 114.0 grams.

GORHAM (Providence, Rhode Island, est. 1831): two Sterling caddy spoons, engraved "MW", approx. 14.7 grams.

NEWELL HARDING (Boston, Massachusetts 1796-1862): three coin caddy spoons, approx. 18.1 grams.

EDWIN B. HORN (Boston, fl. 1843-65): six teaspoons, six tablespoons, two serving spoons, all engraved "CMB", coin, approx. 348.6 grams.

T. LORD (probably New England, c. 1820): one coin teaspoon, engraved "E. Cook", approx. 14.1 grams.

REED & BARTON (Taunton, Massachusetts): one Sterling teaspoon, engraved "Lorraine" in bowl, approx. 19.0 grams.

ALBERT WAKEFIELD (Great Falls, New Hampshire, fl. 1846-67): one coin caddy spoon, approx. 8.5 grams.

ALANSON D. WILCOX (Troy, New York, fl. 1843-56): one coin butter knife, engraved "Saxe", approx. 44.7 grams.

WOOD & HUGHES (New York, 1845-99): three Sterling tablespoons, engraved "M.T. Wick", approx. 141.9 grams.

One coin tablespoon, impressed "PATENT 1845" on stem, engraved "M.T. Wick", approx. 42.2 grams.

One unmarked coin serving fork, approx. 65.2 grams.

Footnotes

Provenance
By descent through Mary Abigail Cook Sutton (1860-1945) of Essex County, Massachusetts, who was born in Whampoa (Huangpu), China.
Predominantly monogrammed "AEC" for Abigail Edwards Cook (1837-1909), wife of Captain James P. Cook (1821-92) of Salem, Massachusetts. The ladle appears to be engraved with initials E.C. and T.H., presumably for Captain Cook's sister Elizabeth Cook (1809-99) and her husband, Thomas Hunt (1805-70), another China Trade merchant from Salem.

The Lord and Appleton pieces engraved "E. Cook" for Elizabeth Cook Hunt (1809-99) of Salem, Massachusetts.

Reed & Barton spoon engraved "Lorraine" for Lorraine Brooke Saxe (1905-92).

Wood & Hughes, Albert Coles, and Gorham spoons engraved "Mary T. Wick" and "MW" for Mary Tennis Wick (1845-1936) of Cleveland, Ohio. By descent through family of her son-in-law, James Alfred Saxe (1863-1948) of Worcester, Massachusetts.

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