WILLIAM IV SILVER BOTTLE STOPPER; M. Ford Creech Antiques & Fine Arts

WILLIAM IV SILVER BOTTLE STOPPER

Henry Wilkinson & Co., Sheffield, 1831-36

Lion Passant & George IV Punches Sheffield Punch

George IV Punch and Maker's Mark Lion Passant and Marker's Mark

A good silver bottle stopper, the finial a cast grape vine stem with finely stippled leaves and grapes,

surmounting a silver screw and marked disk-form silver base, the top with maker's mark, George IV

mark and lion passant, the base with maker's mark and lion passant

Note: each individual cork, if desired, can be threaded onto the long screw.

Condition: Excellent; all marks crisp; some very light rubbing to the edges of stippled leaves

2" High / .5 oz (without cork)

SOLD

#5851

Note:

This stopper, and the pair listed en suite below, are constructed with a long screw that threads through the cork of

choice, attaching to the base-marked silver buttons . These stoppers are very rare, most dating much later in the

19th and 20th centuries.

Each finial a cast grape vine stem with leaves and grapes, the leaves finely stippled

2-3/8" and 2-1/8" High with present corks / 1.2 oz. (including corks)

#5869

SOLD

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