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THE FIRST MAKER'S MARK ONLY OF J.B. CARLIER, MIDDELBURG, CIRCA 1780, THE SECOND MAKER'S MARK ONLY (UNIDENTIFIED) POSSIBLY SCHOONHOVEN, CIRCA 1785
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Two dutch silver and mother-of-pearl corkscrews
The first maker's mark only of J.B. Carlier, Middelburg, circa 1780, the second maker's mark only (unidentified) possibly Schoonhoven, circa 1785
Each tapering with twisted fluted, one silver-mounted mother-of-pearl handles applied with the partriotic symbol of a keeshond, the other one with vase and foliage, marked on bases
8.2 cm. high
gross 62 gr. (2)
The first maker's mark only of J.B. Carlier, Middelburg, circa 1780, the second maker's mark only (unidentified) possibly Schoonhoven, circa 1785
Each tapering with twisted fluted, one silver-mounted mother-of-pearl handles applied with the partriotic symbol of a keeshond, the other one with vase and foliage, marked on bases
8.2 cm. high
gross 62 gr. (2)
Provenance
B.W.G. Wttewaall collection (inventory nos. V245, V336).
Literature
B.W.G. Wttewaall, Nederlands Klein Zilver, Abcoude, 2003, pp. 171-173, ill. 518 (right) and 519 (left).
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