Lot 5
An early 20th century matched garniture of three silver pedestal dishes.
Description
Condition Report
An early twentieth century matched garniture of three silver pedestal dishes, comprising one larger dish flanked by a pair of smaller examples, each decorated with a wide border of pierced and graduated ovals and raised on a waisted stem to a spread circular foot, the pair of dishes with a stepped foot. Hallmarked A & J Zimmerman Ltd., Birmingham 1911 and 1914. Height of larger dish measuring 4 3/4 inches (12 cm) and diameter 6 7/8 inches (17.5 cm), height of smaller dishes measuring 3 3/4 inches (9.5 cm) and diameter (9.5 cm), weight 14.46 ozt (449.7 grams).
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Purchasing information-
All three dishes display some tarnishing and general surface wear, marks and scratches commensurate with the age and use. Would benefit from a clean and polish. Some some minor dints and knocks. One of the smaller dishes appears to have solder repairs around the seam line of the stem. The stem of the other small dish also with visible seam line and possible small repairs in same place. Both stems on the smaller dishes are slightly compressed into bases. The larger dish has minor dints to foot rim and wobbles very slightly. Hallmarks are all clearly legible, some rubbing and slight distortion to maker's marks, especially on the smaller dishes.