816-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 28, 2002
O THE ANTIQUE
DETECTIVE
Anne Gilbert
How To Kecogni/e
Old English Silver
Knowing the shape of various
English silver date letters is one
way to discover valuable silver.
When a pair of 18th century
English sterling candlesticks can
sell at auction for $4,000 or more,
and an early 19th century Eng
lish sterling sugar caddy spoon
fetches more than $2,500 at auc
tion, doing research can pay off
for you. Not everybody is an ex
pert on silver marks, or wants to
spend the time searching for
them.
Equally important is knowing
the hallmarks and designs of the
various periods. Is the design in
keeping with the hallmark date?
CLUES: Just as in other an
tique categories, silver designs
have been reproduced through
the ages. If a candlestick has a
classical Corinthian column form
and a lion mark on the base, it
may or may not date to the 18th
century. The lion assay mark is a
clue to its English origin and was
used to designate solid or “ster
ling" silver, beginning in the year
1544.
The next clue to look for will
be the Duty mark (the head of
the reigning sovereign).
Hopefully you’ll discover the
heads of George 111 or IV on
highly prized Georgian silver.
GRAND OPENING
OF
GERMAN TRADING
POST AUCTION
ART PANNEBECKER
AUCTION SERVICE
NEW YEAR’S DAY,
JAN. 1, 2003
PUBLIC SALE OF ANTIQUES,
PERSONAL PROPERTY
COLLECTION OF ARROWHEADS
SALE AT 9:00 A.M.
Located al 2152 N Reading Rd , Rt 272
Demer Behind the Black Hoise Restaurant
Close to Turnpike Entianee Watch (oi signs 1 "
Marble Top Bedioom Suite, Maible fop fables,
Cylmdei Desk, Victonan furniture lellv
Cupboaid Plank Bottom Chaus Hutch and
Table Kneeling Bench Blanket Chest Diop
Leal fable lion Bed Vanity Dining Room
Suite Laige Compute! Cenlei Ciadle Karastan
Rugs bolding Oak Scieen Round Oak Wooden
Baby Walkei Oak Lawn Benches, Sewing
Machine, Wood Coal Combination Sto\e.
Canmal Depiession Hall Collection of Music
Boxes. Keiosene Lights, Clocks Chicken on
Nests Beat Bank, Reed and Barton Pitchei
S&P s Soap Stone Coveted Dish Slangl Milk
Bottles Cinets hue King Glass Bowls. Biass
Candleholdeis, Lenox, Royal Daullon Milk
White Cups. Sauceis, lewelry Community
Plate, Papet Wts, Mantel Clock Scale.
Miniature WatHe lion Maible Base Lights
Swan Collection Snow (lake As Is, Redware,
lohn Long Paintings, lay McVey Punts,
Pictmes, Aubuin Rubbei C'ais and Trucks, New
Holland Joys. Hess Trucks, Baseball Catds,
Longabergei Baskets Collection of Agate -
Coffee Pots, Milk Kettle, Etc.; Linens,
fancy work, 1806 Tauf Schein; 1843 Taut
Schein; J.H. Mulh. Myerstown Ad>.; Maihles,
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Their profiles faced left. Silver
with the heads of King George V
and Queen Mary will be found on
pieces commemorating their 25th
anniversary on the throne. They
are referred to as jubilee marks.
What if you find a candlestick
with a scratched mark on the
base of say 1755? This could ei
ther be a mark showing it had
been repaired or was in a pawn
shop.
This is not a date mark.
A third mark on English silver
shows where the piece was made.
A leopard’s head designates a
London piece; a castle or thistle
were used by Edinburgh makers.
The date letter identifies the
exact year. Each 20 year cycle in
silver uses a different alphabet
design.
Either try and memorize which
alphabet represents the early
years or put examples in a small
notebook to carry when you go
antique hunting.
Names can lead you astray.
Popular “name” silversmiths like
Boulton, Bateman. Storr and
Lameries are not only extremely
expensive, but faked. Sorry to say
there is
nothing
“Horst Auction Center”
PUBLIC SALE
FINE ANTIQUES,
COLLECTIBLES, DOLLS,
HOUSEHOLD GOODS &
TOOLS
new about
taking the
hallmark
SAT., JANUARY 4, 2003
Sale to be held at the Horst Auction Center,
located at the corner of Rt. 322 & Durlach
Rd. (approx. 2 1/2 miles west of Ephrata),
Ephrata. Lancaster Co., PA.
FURNITURE - A Ig variety of mostly antique &
some modern including bedroom, dining room,
living loom, kitchen & patio (sets & individual
pcs ) “Highlights” - Walnut grandfather’s clock,
empire bureau, hanging cupboard, low dry sink,
commode, dropleal table. Sheraton stand,
Victorian (M T dressei & washstand, brass &
marble stands. Rosewood Melodian), Oak
(wardiobe, china closet, hbiary table, ice box)
Mahogany (dining room suite, breakfront, music
cabinet), baby grand piano, hardware store cabi
net. hitcheoek chair & settee, electric lift chan &
much more 1
LAMPS - Banquet. Gone wAVmd, Ait Nouveau,
piano lamp, Rayo, art deco, cranberry opalescent,
etc
METALWARE - Copper apple butter kettle,
candv kettles, buckets, gooseneck tea kettle, eol
lee pot, measures, butcher ladles, sm parlor stove.
C 1 gnddles & kettles, tailors & flatnons, dog
doorstops eollee mill, brass fireplace fender,
flieplace tools, fine silver coffee & tea service
CHINA & GLASSWARE - Ig variety of antique
& collectible including R S Piussia, R S
Gennany, Limoge Coronet, Royal Vienna, white
ironstone, German Ma|ohca, Nonlake a/alea,
bone china, child's tea sets, satin glass, opales
cent, pressed & pattern, bostona, Heisey
LINENS - Lap robe, blankets, spreads, hooked
rugs
ARTWORK - Gilt hamed paintings, prints &
antique 1 rames. Ig wall map ol Perry, lumata &
Mifflin Counties, trained postcards
DOLLS & ACCESSORIES - Collection ol
antique bisque head, composition, tin head, doll
cupboards & furniture, child’s pull sleigh, Viet
strollers
TOOLS - table saw, jointer, turning lathes,
clamps, hand power tools, hand & garden tools,
scalding tiough. platform scales, treadle grind
stone, antique work bench & much more'
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1 iivmvio VOICES OF EXPERIENCE
from an 18-century Georgian found on faked pieces. based on age, current popularity
spoon and placing it on a new If you are looking at old Eng- of famous names, quality of
silver candlestick. Don't be lish silver as an investment, con- workmanship, weight and condi
afraid to blow on the hallmark, sider the following. Prices are tion.
If it was soldered on, and
not punched, it will show.
Memorize the marks
and names of some of the
lesser known silversmiths.
If the price is modest, and
everything else points to an
18th or 19th century piece,
take a chance.
Sometimes early silver
pattern books are reprinted
to show the variety of
styles by makers. Check
used book stores or dealers
at shows.
There are several refer
ence books on not only
English marks, but Euro
pean and American. Brad
bury’s Book of Hallmarks
was one of the earlier ones.
Another is Old Silver by
Seymour Wyler.
Look for patch lines, be
fore you pay too much. If
repairs have been made
and a patch inserted, this
can been seen when the
piece is tarnished or you
breathe on it. Often a deco
ration that seems out of
place is a clue and hiding a
repair patch.
And, when marks have
been applied to a repro
duction, the patch lines
will show up.
Fuzzy marks are also
AT 9:00 A.M.
HARRY’S AUCTION PRESENTS
ANOTHER OUTSTANDING NEW YEAR'S DAY
TOY & COLLECTIBLE AUCTION
WED., JAN. 1, 2003 - 8;OOAM.
Held at the Bareville Fire Hall, 211 E. Main St., Leola, Pa. 6 miles east
of Lancaster along Rt. 23 (Lancaster County) Pa. Turnpike to exit 22
Starting with three tables of uncataloged toys to include: Character toys
& figures including Nin]a Turtles. Puppet Masters, Spawn, Bette Figure,
Lobo Statue, Akna #1 Figuie, Maivel WoKeime Figuies, Decapitron &
Butty Figuies, Freddy Krueger, Aliens and moie.
Large amount ol Hubley toys tor parts and to icstore including tiucks, cars,
airplanes, tractois and more
Toys approx. 9:00 am.: 1960 s & 1970 s G I collection in ongmal packag
ing to include Tiger Hunt set. Skyhawk, Search tor the stolen idol. Fantastic
Freetall, Foollocker, appiox 50 action sets, 4-book & record sets, 3-12"
dolls. 3-Super|oe dolls, 3-shippmg boxes.
Character toys: 25 Big Little books. Little Rascals/Our Gang figures.
Clubhouse, Rowboat, Orange crate can, 7-McDonald's figures, battery-op
Batmobile, Dick Tracy car. Star Trek 12" figures, playing cards, buttons,
records, instant stained glass. Superman puppet, puzzle & Krypto Raygun,
1922 Felix the cat, Pinocchio, Jimmy Cncket figures, Muhammad Ah figuie,
Gumby & Gumby action outfits, Noddeis including Ballimoie Onoles,
Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Donald Duck
Xylophone & cars. Woody Woodpecker kaleidoscope
Hubley Toys: 2-VW Bugs, schoolbus, hehcoptei, airplanes, gradei. Slake
tiuck. trucks, tractors, cats, race cai. the engine, load lollei. Moloi bxpiess,
car carrier, cattle truck, car kits.
Hess Trucks: 2-1998 mini tankeis, B-Model Mack tankei. 1974 split win
dow tanker, 1976 barrel van, 1977 tankei, 1980 naming van. 1985-present
Wilco 32' tanker
Texaco Trucks: #2. #Y #6, #7, #9, #lO, #ll banks, #l, #2, & #l7 airplanes,
tilt cab tanker, towtiuck. Light-up mini gas pump (pedal car size)
Miscellaneous Toyage: Coca-Cola/Disney pm set, slot car sets, #7Ol &
#771 American Flyer train sets, #lO6O & #lllO Lionel tram sets, Sante-Fc
& Campbell Soup H O train sets. Asst H O cars. Revell H O building kits,
C 1 still banks, Chem Rabbit cai, #5 Matchbox Ruston Bucyius & #7 milk
float. Matchbox display carousel w/cars, 6-Hot Wheel Zowics, 1966 Orioles
glasses, hat, pm, Buddy-L airplane, Maix race set, B O & Friction cars, tin
cars, Tonka |eeps, wooden A C tractor, Structo dumptruck, Midgetoy &
Tootsie Toy \ chicles. Dinky & Corgi busses & vehicles, plastic Ideal con
struction truck, Ciagstan movie projector. Keystone cab, asst Holgate toys
including Yogi Bear, Tin lops, plastic figures, Structo Toyland const,
Baldwin & Ideal guns, tin Navy airplane, Marx jumpm Jeep, Friction Army,
Na\y, MP cars unique art airplane toy, Wolvenne camper, plastic cars,
7-Pushem-up marble games. Tonka cement mixer. Emergency lunchbox.
Cal Ripkm t/t. Hallmark ornaments & kidillac, Aspludh tree tiuck, Brtl
ducks ol the woild, Lionel ducks & snowglobc First Gear me Pa Turnpike
lowboy & dumpduck, cement mixers, dumpti ticks. Sunbeam Bread truck.
Tonka anmv dumptruck & pick-up, DcHanes Heinz truck. Barbie,
Cnssie, Ken, PJ dolls, mini coke pedal airplane, Tru-Scalc flatbed truck,
Lrtl Pennzoil & race luel lankeis, Tru-Toy wrecker, Atlantic gold airplane,
Dukes ol Ha/aid car & lace set. Tico plastic tiuck, Nylmt bulldozer.
Nascar collection: Alan Kulwiciki & Richaid Petty banks. Dale bainhardt
cats including Bass-Pro. Coca-Cola, blue. Goodwrench. Atlanta, Wheaties,
Paits Plus, Delco. Wianglei Lowes, Dale barnhardt anplane. champi
on truck & RCCA tnu . Jell Gordon Action & RCCA cais, Action bunny
cars. Alan Kulwiciki helmet, Davey Allison airplane, Richard Petty biankhn
Mint car, Petty/barnhardt set Champion car sets, A J Foyte Indy car, GMP
Spimt cars, and more
Model kits: Large selection of military kits including submarines, tanks,
ships, airplanes, Stai-Wars, Return ot the Jedi, Empire Strikes Back, car kits
including Cadillacs, Corvettes
Promotional cars: 1962 halcon, 1967 T-Bird. 19*59 Corvette, 1966
American, 1970 Corvette, 1975-1982 Corvettes and more
Precision Farm Toys: J D 2-720'S, 9780 combine, Waterloo Boy, “A"
4440, 2-720's w/blades, *5 bottom plow. Hay wagon. Little Genius plow
Faimall 400, Case 970
Farm & Construction toys; 2-Case Il7o's, Case 800, Case Maxum,
Fannall M-TA, AC D-19, Farmall Cub. Sheppard Diesel, 2-M F 4228,
Farmall 770, M H 44, Cat 2-ton crawler, Oliver Spirit ol St Louis, J D ,
Histoncal set, 2266 combine. 4480, "R". 8760, "BR", "GP", 7010, L&G.
470 uawlers, 'D", 1 /Bth scale J D "A". NZG pavei, Terex 8280 crawlci,
tiackhoe & compressor Welldnller. Conrad Compactor, Caterpillar pipe
layei & load giader. Corgi Euclid dumptruck, I H construction pcs , Dinky
uawleis. Steam shovel, Michigan loader, Akeiman trackhoe. Grove 1800
crane P&H ciane.
Pedal Vehicles: Jeep. Buddy-L. Pepsi, I D 8710 & 4400 pedals wooden
child's Blackbird wagon, 2 person sled.
Jim Beam tar decanters: 1969 Camaio. 6-1957 Chevys, 1954 Lord
Roadster, 1974 Mercedes-Benz
Separate Collectible Auction at 9:00 am. With Second Auctioneer:
Rope bed w/ongmal red paint, cedar chest, 40 Hummel figurines & plates.
Granite codec pots. Clocks & |ugs, Bain lanterns. Shoe last. Hanging scale,
Giaybill’s milk box, Ice tongs, hay hook. Cherry seedei, lunchboxes. Wood
planes. Kitchen utensils, wooden trough, oil lamps, Coca-Cola machine, 15
Longaberger baskets. Hall covered dish, pottery vases, Fostona punch bowl
set. 45 rpm iccoids, advertising signs & tins. Beer lights. Golf clubs, post
caids, Lighteis, Pmbacks, U S Mail collection, Hess tiucks. Matchbox cars,
Bellbuckles, cameias, Sohdo car. Asst glassware. Animated X-mas decora
tions, maibles, Arctic Cat helmet, Cotlee table books. Rocking hoise, Daisy
model 99 BB gun, dolls & doll clothing, wooden blocks. Cuckoo clock,
plastic pig bank, wooden loot stool and much moie
(We are still unpacking boxes at the time ol our advertising deadline )
COINS: Peace dollars. Mercury dimes, Buffalo nickels, Kennedy halves.
This large quality auction will feature approx. 700 lots of toys. If you
■ are considering selling one toy or a collection please give us a call.
Everything is sold without reserve. Preview Tuesday Dec. 31, 2002
from 5:00pm.-7:oopm.
No out of state checks.
Auctioneers:
Randy Stoltzfus (717) 656-8919 Au-1906
Richqrflflqrry (717) 656-2436 Au-2183
& west 12 miles,
Ike dollars