EARLY ENGLISH TOY SILVER FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANN DOUGLAS NOLAND SPREEN LOTS 220-231 Ann Douglas Noland Spreen (b. 1921) is the daughter of William C. Noland (1865-1891), noted architect of Richmond, Virginia. The collection was begun by her mother, Mary Bleecker Miller Noland (1889-1990), and at one time contained more than 200 pieces of both antique and contemporary toy silver. Mrs. Spreen wrote of her collection: "The collecting of 'little silvers' began when I was 5 or 6 and a friend of my mother gave me half a set of tiny silver plates, cups and flatware. These gave me so many hours of happy play that my mother boosted the game along by bringing me similar miniature pieces whenever she went on a trip. In the '20s and '30s they could be found in gift shops and souvenir stands almost anywhere. After my father died in 1951, my mother's travelling increased just as the supply of contemporary miniatures was decreasing. So she turned to the antique market and became a serious collector for herself . . . she willed her collection to me upon her death in 1990."

A GEORGE I TOY SILVER SIX-PIECE TEA SERVICE, TRAY, AND EQUIPAGE

MARK OF DAVID CLAYTON, LONDON, CIRCA 1720

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A GEORGE I TOY SILVER SIX-PIECE TEA SERVICE, TRAY, AND EQUIPAGE
MARK OF DAVID CLAYTON, LONDON, CIRCA 1720
Comprising: a baluster form kettle-on-stand with burner, lighthouse-form coffee pot with detachable cover and side spout, globular teapot with detachable cover, baluster-form covered milk pot, open sugar bowl, rectangular tea caddy with canted corners and cover, six tea bowls and six saucers, six teaspoons, nine cake plates, on a rectangular tray with incurved corners, marked on kettle, burner stand, burner, kettle handle, coffee pot body, base and cover, teapot base and cover, base of hot milk pot, sugar bowl and tea caddy, base of tea bowls, interior of saucers, field of plates, reverse of spoons, field of tray
The tray 5 3/8 in. (13.5 cm.) long (34)

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with Walter Willson, 1956; tray and caddy James Robinson, 1957