Early 20th Century Edwardian Sterling Silver Siphon Stand Wine Bottle Coaster by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company

Description

Title: Sterling Silver Siphon Stand Wine Bottle Coaster .
Maker: Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company.
Period: Edwardian.
Material: Sterling Silver.

Description: … more Title: Sterling Silver Siphon Stand Wine Bottle Coaster .
Maker: Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company.
Period: Edwardian.
Material: Sterling Silver.

Description: (1) superb antique Edwardian sterling sliver siphon stand wine bottle coaster with London hallmarks, and makers mark of Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company. The stand is of a cylindrical form, having a pierced decoration, with oval medallion and swags, foliate borders, sits on a spread circular base. Sterling mark details: (a) standard mark - (lion) Sterling. 925. (b) city mark (London). (c) date mark (letters on Silver "l" - 1906). (d) maker's mark - "G&SCo - Ltd" (Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company - Ltd) beginning of 20th c. Silver Weight: 512 grams/16.46 troy ounces.

Measures: 5.25 D x 6.75 H inches.

About the maker: The firm was established in 1880 by William Gibson (d. 1913) and John Lawrence Langman (1846-1928).
The firm was active at 112 Regent Street, London acquiring the premises previously used by John Joseph Mechi.
In 1893 the firm absorbed The Goldsmiths' Alliance Ltd (late A.B. Savory & Sons) and in 1898 became the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd being active as jewellers, dealers in diamonds and precious stones, silversmiths, electroplaters and watch and clock makers.
In 1952 Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd was amalgamated with Garrard & Co Ltd.
The firm participated in a number of national and international exhibitions, as the Indian and Colonial Exhibition (London, 1886), Paris (1889), Chicago (1893), California (1894), Paris (1900) and Franco-British Exhibition (London, 1908).
The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co was active with manufactories at Newcastle Place, Clerkenwell; Regent Works, Sheffield and Rue St George, Paris and as retailer of items supplied by various British gold and silver manufacturers (Martin Hall & Co Ltd, W&G Sissons, Wakely & Wheeler, William Comyns, Harrison Brothers & Howson, etc.).

Provenance: Item acquired by R.H. Macy & Co. in the late 20th century for "The English Collection". For a brief period, Macy's bought and sold antique sterling pieces. less