Lot 192
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A SILVER TANKARD, maker's mark of Fletcher & Gardiner, Philadelphia, circa 1820, small spout later applied then removed, cylindrical, with applied die-rolled tongue-and-dart border, with two broader foliate bands at intervals, with foliate capped S-scroll handle with shell thumbpiece, the slightly raised hinged cover with chased radiating acanthus and palmette calyx to the pineapple finial--7in. (17.7cm.) high, 32.5oz.

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A SILVER TANKARD, maker's mark of Fletcher & Gardiner, Philadelphia, circa 1820, small spout later applied then removed, cylindrical, with applied die-rolled tongue-and-dart border, with two broader foliate bands at intervals, with foliate capped S-scroll handle with shell thumbpiece, the slightly raised hinged cover with chased radiating acanthus and palmette calyx to the pineapple finial--7in. (17.7cm.) high, 32.5oz.

Lot Essay

Cf: Hood, Graham, American Silver A History of Style, 1650 - 1900, Prager Publishers, N.Y., 1971, see page 212, fig 239, for an extremely similar, but smaller example, lacking a finial.

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