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MAKER'S MARK ONLY OF JAN VAN GIFFEN, GRONINGEN, CIRCA 1770, THE FISST BODKIN WITHOUT MAKER'S MARK, AMSTERDAM, 1781, THE SECOND MAKER'S MARK UNIDENTIFIED, SCHOONHOVEN, NO DATE-LETTER, CIRCA 1785
Details
A pair of dutch silver scissors and two bodkins
Maker's mark only of Jan van Giffen, Groningen, circa 1770, the fisst bodkin without maker's mark, Amsterdam, 1781, the second maker's mark unidentified, Schoonhoven, no date-letter, circa 1785
The pair of scissors with steel blades and decorated with laurel scrolls and foliage, the second with sailing vessel and plain tapering unscrewable case, the third similar with keeshond, marked on bodies
15.8 cm. long
42 gr. (weighable silver) (3)
Maker's mark only of Jan van Giffen, Groningen, circa 1770, the fisst bodkin without maker's mark, Amsterdam, 1781, the second maker's mark unidentified, Schoonhoven, no date-letter, circa 1785
The pair of scissors with steel blades and decorated with laurel scrolls and foliage, the second with sailing vessel and plain tapering unscrewable case, the third similar with keeshond, marked on bodies
15.8 cm. long
42 gr. (weighable silver) (3)
Provenance
B.W.G. Wttewaall collection (inventory nos. V535, V548, V679).
Literature
B.W.G. Wttewaall, Nederlands Klein Zilver, Abcoude, 2003, pp. 139-140, ill. 403 (left) and 406 (right).
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