Sale 2447
New York
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17 May 2011
Price realised
USD 11,250
Estimate
A GEORGE V SILVER BOWL MARK OF OMAR RAMSDEN, LONDON, 1923 Circular, the circular foot with trefoil and quatrefoil bands and openwork acanthus leaf calyx supporting a flaring bowl, the base engraved I WAS WROUGHT FOR N. ALLAN PETTIT BY COMMAND OF MAXWELL WYETH IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD MCMXXV, marked under base and also engraved OMAR RAMSDEM ME FECIT 12½ in. (31.7 cm.) diameter; 44 oz. 10 dwt. (1,383 gr.)
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