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Items produced in Old Sheffield Plate included buttons, caddy spoons, fish slices, serving utensils, candlesticks and other lighting devices, coffee and tea sets, serving dishes and trays, tankards and pitchers and larger items such as soup tureens and hot-water urns. 'Old Sheffield Plate' with all three word capitalised is the accepted term in ...
The price had risen to $3,000 before eBay closed the auction. [8] [9] In May 2006, the remains of U.S. Fort Montgomery, a stone fortification in upstate New York built in 1844, were put up for auction on eBay. The first auction ended on June 5, 2006, with a winning bid of US$5,000,310.
For a lady's dressing-table, including items for snacks and hot drinks. Household silver or silverware ( the silver , the plate , or silver service ) includes tableware , cutlery , and other household items made of sterling silver , silver gilt , Britannia silver , or Sheffield plate silver.
English: Tea/hot Water Urn (USA), ca. 1845 Description English: Urn (b) consisting of bulbous circular section repoussé and chased with foliate scrolls and flowers on a punch work ground all centered by two rococo cartouches, the center engraved with initials "J.A.B", the other on the back with initials "J.B.P" on Gothic capital letters.
A particular feature of this collection is the fine series of early engraved catalogues of old Sheffield plate. A collection of 29 massive ledgers of the South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire iron trade carried on by the syndicate of iron-masters of whom William Spencer was one, links up with material in the Spencer Stanhope collection.
Thomas Boulsover needed financial assistance to set up a business in fused plate and it came from Mr Strelley Pegge of Beauchief Hall who loaned him the necessary capital. He went into partnership with Joseph Wilson whose father was a scythe smith at Sharrow, setting up a workshop on Baker's Hill in Sheffield. The main product of the business ...
Although items hand-plated with metal leaf date back to ancient times, large scale production dates to 1742 when Thomas Boulsover, of Sheffield, England developed a process by which silver plates were fused to base metal (generally copper) ingots by heating them in a furnace with borax. [2]
This prospered and in 1762–65 Hancock built the water-powered Old Park Silver Mills at the confluence of the Loxley and the Don, one of the earliest factories solely producing an industrial semi-manufacture. Eventually Old Sheffield Plate was supplanted by cheaper electroplate in the 1840s. In 1773 Sheffield was given a silver assay office. [64]