MARK OF MYER MYERS, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1765

Previously undocumented, the present lot comprises a small group of gold marked for Myer Myers. In addition to this plain band ring, four mourning rings by Myers are known and include examples in memory of Anna Maria Panet, now in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, Robert Hunter Morris, now in a private collection, Philip Philipses, which was stolen in the 1960's and remains unlocated, and John Stroud, sold from the Darling Foundation Collection at Christie's, New York, 18 January 2007, lot 15, and then again from the Collection of Irvin & Anita Schorsch at Sotheby's, New York, 20 January 2016, lot 1046. Please see D. Barquist, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York (New Haven, 2001, pp. 56-57) for additional works of gold marked for Myers.