AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER

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ID 696314
Lot 297 | AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER
AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER

MARK OF JOHN EDWARDS, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1720

The pierced keyhole handle slightly later engraved with block initials S*F and date 1745, marked on inside base (Kane mark C)

8 in. (20.3 cm.) long, over handle

10 oz. 12 dwt. (330 gr.)







Provenance

S. Franklin, by 1745.

Mrs. Robert C. Terry, by 1951.





Literature

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, New Haven, 1998, p. 416.

Kathryn C. Buhler, "John Edwards, Goldsmith, and his Progeny," The Magazine Antiques, vol. LIX, no. 4, April 1951, pp. 289-290, fig. 5.
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