OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939) & ALWYN CARR (1872-1940)
An Arts
& Crafts silver pendant centred with a red enamel plaque
decorated
with a silver rose amongst lilies suspending three elongated silver
drops.
English. Circa 1905. Unmarked.
Size: Height of pendant 7 cm. Width 3.1 cm. Length around chain 44
cm.
Lit.: Omar Ramsden, exhibition catalogue, Birmingham Museum,
1993.
In Search of RAMSDEN &
CARR. Helen Ashton. Published Unicorn 2018.
(Pendant case)  |
THE
GUILD OF HANDICRAFT Ltd. (1888-1907)
(Attributed)
An Arts & Crafts silver brooch set cabochon garnets.
English. Circa 1900. Size: Diameter 4
cm.
Lit.: Art Nouveau Jewellery. Vivienne Becker. 1985.
Modern English Silverwork, C. R. Ashbee, 1909 (Fitted
case) Sold |
OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939) & ALWYN CARR (1872-1940)
An Arts &
Crafts silver pendant centred with a red enamel plaque decorated
with silver floral motifs suspending three elongated silver drops.
The reverse enamelled in blue.
English. Circa 1905. Unmarked.
Size: Height of pendant 6.7 cm. Width 3.3 cm. Length around chain
49 cm.
Lit.: Omar Ramsden, exhibition catalogue, Birmingham Museum,
1993.
In Search of RAMSDEN & CARR. Helen Ashton. Published Unicorn
2018.
(Pendant case) |
| OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939) & ALWYN CARR (1872-1940)
An Arts & Crafts, silver pendant set with
a mother-of-pearl central drop
surrounded by a silver wreath of leaf and berries tied with a bow.
Original drops, chain and clasp. English.
Circa 1905. Unmarked.
Size: Height of pendant 6.3 cm. Width 4.1 cm. Length around chain
42 cm.
Lit.: Omar Ramsden, exhibition catalogue, Birmingham Museum,
1993.
In Search of RAMSDEN & CARR. Helen Ashton. Published Unicorn
2018.
(Necklace case) |
| OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939) & ALWYN CARR (1872-1940)
A silver pendant centred with red enamel
decorated with a silver rose and
two wild thistles.
English. 1905. Marked to reverse
for Ramsden & Carr.
Also signed to the reverse, ‘AMBL from EEA 21.V1.1905.’.
Size: Height of pendant 5.8 cm. Width 3.1 cm. Length around chain
48.5 cm.
Lit.: Omar Ramsden, exhibition catalogue, Birmingham Museum,
1993.
In Search of RAMSDEN & CARR. Helen Ashton. Published Unicorn
2018.
Pendant case |
BERNARD
CUZNER (1877-1956)
A silver Arts & Crafts brooch depicting a bird eating
berries amongst leaves.
English. Circa 1910. Marked ‘BC’
Size: Height 2. 3
cm. Length 6 cm.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Kenneth Crisp Jones.
(Brooch case) 
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OMAR
RAMSDEN (1872-1940)
An Arts & Crafts, silver pendant with three carnelian stones
set in a scrolling
trefoil formation suspending three more silver carnelian set drops.
Part original chain. Original clasp.
English. Circa 1919.
Original fitted case marked 'OMAR
RAMSDEN Artist Goldsmith London. England'.
Size: Height 7.5 cm. Width 3.4 cm. Length around chain 45.7 cm.
Lit.: Omar Ramsden, exhibition catalogue, Birmingham Museum,
1993. . |
MARY
THEW (1876-1953)
A silver pendant centrally set with a large carnelian. The
wirework frame
decorated with gold and silver beads, faceted citrines and green tourmaline
cabochons and with a cornelian drop. The pendant suspended from a
circular carnelian. The
reverse marked with a dotted ‘T’.
Scottish. Circa 1900.
Size: Height of pendant with bale set with a carnelian 8.8 cm. Width
3.8 cm.
Lit.: The Glasgow Style. Art Gallery & Museum Kelvingrove
Glasgow. 1984.
(Fitted case) |
MARY
THEW (1876-1953)
A circular silver brooch set with turquoise and mother of
pearl .
Scottish. Circa 1900. Size: Diameter 4.5 cm.
Lit.: The Glasgow Style. Art Gallery & Museum Kelvingrove
Glasgow. 1984.
(Fitted case)  |
| C.
R. ASHBEE (1863-1942)
THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT Ltd. (1888-1907)
Snowdrop necklace. An Arts & Crafts gold necklace.
The pendant set with a central enamel of snowdrops with a turquoise
above and
with turquoise drops. The gold chain with four blister pearls set
in silver mounts.
Original Guild of Handicraft
Ltd. case and bill of sale for 1902.
The silk marked,‘The Guild of Handicraft Ltd. 16a Brook Street.
Bond Street.W.
Works: Essex House Bow.’
Size: Height of pendant 7.9 cm. Width 2.15 cm.
Length around necklace 45.5 cm.
Lit.: Jewelry & Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts
Tradition, Elyse Zorn Karlin, 1993.
A similar pendant and necklace illustrated page 39. 
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C.
R. ASHBEE (1863-1942)
THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT Ltd. (1888-1907)
A silver brooch with enamel of honesty, set with a central star sapphire.
English. Circa 1902. Size: 3 cm. diameter.
Illustrated in The Artist. Volume 33. Page 24. January 1902.
(Fitted case)
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| FREDRICK
JAMES PARTRIDGE (1877-1942) (Attributed)
A gold pendant with a central, heart-shaped enamel, mounted with
plique-a-jour leaves
and peridot ‘buds’. The plique-a-jour border set with
peridots and with peridot drops.
English. Circa 1900. Size: Height with bale
5.5 cm. W. 3 cm.
Lit.: Art Nouveau Jewelry. Vivienne Becker, 1985.
(Fitted case)  |
| THE
GUILD OF HANDICRAFT Ltd. (1888-1907)
A silver and gold brooch, enamelled in blue
& green, set with an eilat cabochon.
Original Guild case. The silk marked,‘The Guild of Handicraft
Ltd. 16A Brook St.
Bond Street. W . Works: Essex House. Chipping Campden, Glos.’
English. Circa 1903. Size: Height 3 cm. Width 3.5 cm.
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NELSON
(1859-1942) & EDITH DAWSON
A rare Arts & Crafts silver pendant decorated with a central enamel
roundel of
a small flower.
English. Circa 1905. Unmarked
Size: Height of pendant 5.5 cm.
Width 4.1 cm.
Lit.: Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition.
Elyse Zorn Karlin, 1993. Exhibited Fine Art Society. (Fitted case)
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KATE
ALLEN
An Arts & Crafts, silver necklace, with wirework scrolls
set with chrysoprase
and pearl with silver florets set with turquoise.
English. Circa 1900.
Size: Height of pendant 5.5 cm. Total height 8.5 cm. Width 3.7 cm.
Lit.: Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition.
Elyse Zorn Karlin.
(Fitted case) |
C.
R. ASHBEE (1863-1942)
THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT Ltd. (1888-1907)
An important, Arts & Crafts, silver long-chain necklace with enamel
plaques.
The enamels interspaced with typical C. R. Ashbee decoration of wirework
surrounding small silver balls.
English. Circa 1900.
Size: Total length of chain 129 cm. Length of
plaque 3 cm. Width 2 cm. (Fitted case)
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JAMES
CROMAR WATT (1862-1940)
A silver, light blue enamel over foil, pendant depicting the ‘Tree
of Life’. The Tree enamelled in golden brown with green leaves
surmounted by a gold crowned bud.
Scottish.
Circa 1900. Unmarked.
Size: Total height bale to drop 7 cm. Width of plaque central 2.5
cm.
Lit.: Artists’ Jewellery. Charlotte Gere & Geoffrey
C. Munn. (Fitted case)
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ARTHUR
(1862-1928) & GEORGINA
GASKIN (1866-1934)
A large Arts and Crafts silver pendant centrally set with an oval
blister pearl
surrounded by silver ‘florets’
set old cut rock crystal and ‘laural leaves’
of antique green pastes, with further green pastes set to
the silver chain.
Original case marked ‘MR. & MRS. ARTHUR
GASKIN OLTON WARWICKSHIRE’ English.
Circa 1910.
Size: Width 4.5 cm. Height with drop, without green pastes
to chain, 7 cm.
Lit.: Arthur & Georgie Gaskin. B’ham Museum and
Art Gallery Catalogue.
Lit.: The Studio. Vol. l61.1914. Similar pendants illustrated.
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WILLIAM
THOMAS BLACKBAND (1885-1945)
(Attributed)
An Arts & Crafts silver brooch set with pearl bordered
with leaf & spiral motifs.
The reverse planished silver. English.
Circa 1910. (Fitted case) Sold
Size: Ht. 1.4 cm. W. 4.8 cm. Lit.: The Silversmiths
of Birmingham. Kenneth C. Jones |
ARTHUR
(1862-1928) & GEORGINA GASKIN (1866-1934)
A delicate small Arts and Crafts silver pendant, set with
cabochon opals and pink tourmalines, surrounded by silver ‘florets’
and ‘laural leaves’ of antique green pastes. The chain
with original clasp.
English.
Circa 1910. Size: Height of pendant from bale to drop 4.5 cm.
From top opal to drop 5 cm. From green paste spacers to drop 6.5 cm.
Width 2.3 cm.
Lit.: Arthur & Georgie Gaskin. B’ham Museum and Art Gallery
Cat. (Fitted case) |
ARTS
& CRAFTS. ERNESTINE MILLS.
(1871-1959) (Attributed)
A delightful silver pendant set an enamel over
coloured foils of a paddling duck.
English. Circa 1900. (Fitted case)
Size: Approx. width across pendant 3.3 cm. Total length with chain
approx. 43 cm.
Lit:- Jewelry & Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition,
Elyse Zorn Karlin.
(Fitted case) |
| EDGAR
SIMPSON (Flourished 1896-1910)
A silver brooch with repoussé foliate decoration
set with two bowinate stones.
English. Circa 1900. Marked ‘ES’.
Size: Height 3.5cm. Width 3.2 cm.
Illustrated in Jewelry & Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts
Tradition. Elyse Zorn Karlin. Page 92. Lit: Artists’
Jewellery. Charlotte Gere & Geoffrey C. Munn. (Fitted case.)
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ARTIFICERS’
GUILD (1901-1942)
The design attributed to EDWARD SPENCER & JOHN BONNOR.
An Arts & Crafts silver necklace, with gold and enamel
accents, set with opal, pink tourmaline, garnet, turquoise, chalcedony
and moonstone.
Original Artificers’ Guild fitted
case. The silk stamped, ‘The Artificers’ Guild Ltd,
1, Conduit Street, London W.’ English.
Circa 1905.
Size: Height of pendant including central dragon ship 9 cm. Necklace
length 43 cm.
Lit: Artists’Jewellery. Charlotte Gere and Geoffrey
C. Munn . Page 19. |
WILLIAM
THOMAS BLACKBAND (1885-1945)
(Attributed)
An Arts & Crafts silver brooch. The central ceramic Ruskin
plaque bordered with circular leaf motifs. The reverse planished silver.
English. Circa 1910.
Size:
Ht. 2.1 cm. W. 4.4 cm. Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham.
Kenneth C. Jones.
Arthur & Georgie Gaskin, City Museum & Art Gallery,
B’ham. 1982, page 86. 
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NEWLYN
An Arts & Crafts silver enamelled pendant.
English. Circa 1910. Marked ‘NEWLYN’
to both parts of pendant.
Size: Height with bale 6.3 cm. Without bale 6 cm. Width 3.8 cm. (Fitted
case)
Lit.: Arts & Crafts in
Newlyn 1890-1930, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance.
Jewelry & Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition. Elyse
Zorn Karlin, 1993.
(Fitted case)
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ARTIFICERS’
GUILD (1901-1942)
An Arts & Crafts silver necklace of wirework leaves and beads.
The tourmaline pendant and necklace set with further tourmalines,
sapphires, citrines and garnets. English.
Circa 1910.
Size: Pendant height 5.2 cm. Width 3.5 cm. Necklace length 37 cm.
(Fitted case)
Lit.: Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition.
Elyse Zorn Karlin.
(Fitted case)
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GUILD
OF HANDICRAFT Ltd. (1888-1907)
An Arts & Crafts silver brooch with a central enamel of a pansy.
English. Circa 1900. Size: 4.2 cm. point to
point.
Lit.: Utopian Craftsmen. Lional Lambourne 1980. (Fitted
case) Sold |
C.
R. ASHBEE (1863-1942)
THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT Ltd. (1888-1907)
An Arts & Crafts, articulated, silver brooch of abstract butterfly
shape,
set with an opal.
English. Circa 1900. Size: Height 6.2 cm. Width
4.2 cm.
Lit.: Jewelry & Metalwork in the Arts
& Crafts Tradition, Elyse Zorn Karlin, 1993.
A similar brooch illustrated page 119. (Fitted case) |
QUEENSWAY.
An Art Nouveau silver pendant depicting a maiden her flowing hair
decorated with a crown of laurel leaves
within a blue and red enamelled border.
Queensway jewellery was probably retailed though Liberty & Co.
Marked, ‘QUEENSWAY STG SILVER’.
English. Circa 1900.
Size: Pendant height 2.8 cm., down from ring
5.8 cm. Width 3.8 cm. (Pendant case) |
WILLIAM
THOMAS BLACKBAND (1885-1945)
(Attributed)
An Arts & Crafts parure. The silver oak leaf and acorn decorated
necklace,
bangle, brooch, clip and ring, set RUSKIN ceramics.
The Ruskin panels with planished backs,
except the ring which is marked ‘RUSKIN’. English. Circa
1910. Size: Necklace length 86 cm. Brooch 7 cm.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Kenneth Crisp Jones.
(Fitted case)
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ARTS
& CRAFTS
A silver lapel brooch with a fine enamel of Cupid perched on a branch
amongst
leaves and blossom.
English. Circa 1915. Size: Length 7.9 cm.
Width 2.3 cm. (Brooch case)
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BERNARD
CUZNER (1877-1956)
A silver Arts & Crafts brooch chased and embossed with stylized
branches and leaves. The terminals set cabochon chrysoprase. The back
with a double pin.
English.
Circa 1910. Size: Length 7 cm. Width 1 cm.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Kenneth Crisp Jones.
(Fitted case)
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BERTHA
L. GOFF. ‘LEDA AND THE SWAN’,
An Arts & Crafts silver necklace. The central figure set in a
wirework frame surrounded by green enamel plaques. The chain also
set with green enamel plaques.
English. Circa 1902. Size: Height of
pendant 4.2 cm. Width 3.7 cm.
The drawing for this necklace is illustrated in the Annual National
Art Competition 1902 catalogue, where it was awarded 2nd prize. (Fitted
case)
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