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Sale 5980
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Estimate$1,500 – $2,500
The Peter Vergereau spoon with shell and foliate decorated handle end and bowl back, the back of handle end engraved, "SELM," marked twice; the Nicholas Van Rensselaer spoon of "Hanoverian" mid-rib form, drop at bowl back, back of handle end engraved, "W/ I * L," marked twice.
W: 1 3/4 in. L: 8 in. and W: 1 1/2 in. L: 8 in., Total weight: 3.535 oz. t.Note
The mate to the Peter Vergereau spoon is in the Winterthur Museum Collection, accession no. 1954.0060.
Provenance
Peter Vergereau spoon:
The Collection of Roy and Ruth Nutt, circa 1985, by repute
Jonathan Trace, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, November 11, 2016
Nicholas Van Rensselaer spoon:
The Collection of Roy and Ruth Nutt
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, January 22, 2016, lot 1286
A private New Jersey collection.
Literature
The mate to the Peter Vergereau spoon is illustrated as no. 91 in Fales, Martha Gandy, American Silver in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (1958), inventory no. 3057.
