£5600 FOR 30 OZ. SILVER.

Mataura Ensign, 13 May 1914, Page 2

£5600 FOR 30 OZ. SILVER.

HIGH PRICES AT CHRISTIE'S. Not for 12 years has .such a remarkable oolleiction of silver .been brought up at Messrs Christie's rooms in Londoni as that whi'ch ia being offered this week, belonging to the fifth Lord Ajshburnham (stated 'The Daily Mail' of Mar.cih, 25). .Yesterday, the first day of the sale, a Henry VII. silver "standing salt and cover, weighing 30oz, 12£ inches in height, and ihaving the London ball mark 1508, was sold in a few seconds to Messrs Crichton Bros, for £5600. 1. This is the oldest piece of: silver sold; at the - rooms and is tfce -earliest article of its claiss in! existence. Uip to now the Ironmongers' Company iiave olaimed' .tie earliest silver sitandimg salt, dated 1518-22. For a (pair of Charles 11. .bottle and stoppers," weighing 760z, Mr Amor oarried the bidding to £3B an ounce and was greatly aipplauded. The artidles realised £2907. Ifc 'Was then decided to sell a George I. silver gilt plain toilet set in one lot, and (this method of sale quickened interest, the bidding risine quicklv to £6IOO. *