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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ERIC MARTIN WUNSCH
A SILVER OCTAGONAL PEPPER BOX
MARK OF WILLIAM SIMPKINS, BOSTON, CIRCA 1735
Details
A SILVER OCTAGONAL PEPPER BOX
MARK OF WILLIAM SIMPKINS, BOSTON, CIRCA 1735
Tapering octagonal, the domed pierced cover with baluster finial, with scroll handle, the base engraved H over IH and later engraved to TMH, marked under base with Kane mark B
3 ¾ in. (9.4 cm.) high; 2 oz. 10 dwt. (76 gr.)
MARK OF WILLIAM SIMPKINS, BOSTON, CIRCA 1735
Tapering octagonal, the domed pierced cover with baluster finial, with scroll handle, the base engraved H over IH and later engraved to TMH, marked under base with Kane mark B
3 ¾ in. (9.4 cm.) high; 2 oz. 10 dwt. (76 gr.)
Provenance
Jonathan Trace, 1981
Literature
The Magazine Antiques, January 1981, p. 118
Patricia Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Goldsmiths, 1998, p. 896
Patricia Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Goldsmiths, 1998, p. 896
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