| C. R. ASHBEE
(1863-1942) THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT Ltd. (1888-1907)
An important silver and enamel buckle set mother-of -pearl formed
as two
winged dragonflies. English. Circa 1900. Size: Width
11.2. Height 6.1. (Fitted case)
Lit.: The Guild of Handicraft, Ltd., Workers in Applied Art
Silversmiths & Jewellers.
Gürtelschließen des Jugendstils. Karl Kreuzer.
Page 58. An illustration page 59.  |
HUTTON & SONS
Ltd.
A silver cloak clasp enamelled with daffodils and May hawthorn
(May blossom).
Size: Diameter 3.8 cm.(Original fitted case)
English. Marks for Hutton & Sons Ltd. Hallmarks for London 1895.

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NELSON (1859-1942)
& EDITH DAWSON
An early steel buckle. Each half in the form of four swans
set with an enamel of fruiting apple branches. Size: Total
width 12.5 cm. Height 6 cm. (Fitted case)
English. Signed to the reverse with a ‘D’ centred in
a leaf and dated 1894. Lit.: Jewelry
and Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition. Elyse Zorn
Karlin. Illus. page 51. Sold |
MURRLE BENNETT &
Co. (1886-1914)
A silver Murrle Bennett & Co. buckle set with turquoise
cabochon stones.
Anglo/German. Import mark for London 1903 and MB & Co.
Size: Ht. 4.6 cm. Width 5.7 cm. (Buckle case)
Lit.: Art Nouveau Jewelry. Vivienne Becker. Liberty
Style. Academy Editions.  |
OLIVER
BAKER (1856-1939) for LIBERTY & Co.
A silver buckle set with a central turquoise and with side sections
of spot
hammered stylised scrollwork. (Original
Liberty & Co. case)
Marked ‘L & Co. Cymric’. Hallmarks for B’ham
1901. Size: Ht. 7 cm. Width 10.7cm.
Liberty Jewellery sketch book number 107.  |
JOHN EDWARD WILSON
(1854-1934)
A silver buckle set with an autumnal enamel of oak leaves and acorns.
The enamel panel monogrammed ‘W’.
English. Circa 1910.
Size: Height 6 cm. Width 5 cm. Provenance: Family descent. (Fitted
case) 
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| KATE HARRIS (fl.
1898-1920) WILLIAM HUTTON & SONS.
A silver three piece belt buckle decorated
with a young girl amongst blossom.
Size: Height 6 cm. Total width 9.5 cm. (Fitted case) |
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| Maker’s
marks and hallmarks for London 1899. Lit.: A Marriage of Art
and Commerce. Stephen Pudney. Gürtelschließen
des Jugendstils. Karl Kreuzer. Ills. page 59. Sold |
APPLE BLOSSOM
BUCKLE.
A silver buckle enamelled with apple blossom branches .
Marked ‘925’, ‘BK’, and with import marks
for London 1911. (Buckle case)
Size: Height 6.1 cm. Width 7.8 cm. (Minute fault to bottom edge
of back enamel.)  |
MURRLE BENNETT &
Co. (1886-1914)
A silver Murrle Bennett & Co. buckle set opals.
German. Marked ‘MB
& Co.’ and with import mark
for London 1902.
Size: Height 4.2 cm. Width 6.4 cm. (Fitted case)
Lit.: Art Nouveau Jewelry. Vivienne Becker. Liberty
Style. Academy Editions.  |
JOHN BAKER BENNETT
& Co.
A silver, two piece buckle, enamelled with blue and green enamels.
English. Maker’s mark and hallmarks for Birmingham 1907.
Size: Height 3.8 cm. Width 7.2 cm. (Buckle case)  |
ROBERT KRAFT
A hammered ‘Alpacca’ (nickel silver) buckle
set with violet rose glass stones.
German. Unmarked . Size: Diameter 7.5 cm. Circa 1905.
Lit.: Deutsche und österreichische Schmuckarbeiten.
Pages 42-48.
B. Dry-v.Zezschwitz & G. Dry. Published 1991. (Cased) Sold
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A SKONVIRKE BUCKLE
A silver, three piece, Scandinavian buckle, depicting a Viking
ship set on an enamelled background of a seascape.
Unmarked . Size: Height 5 cm. Width 10 cm. Circa 1910.
(In an original fitted case)  |
OMAR RAMSDEN
(1873-1939) & ALWYN CARR (1872-1940)
A silver buckle set an enamel, attributed to Charles Fleetwood
Varley,
depicting a woodland scene. (Fitted case)
Makers’ marks & hallmarks for London 1905.
Size: Height 6.5 cm. Width 2 cm.
Lit.: Gürtelschließen des Jugendstils. Karl
Kreuzer. Colour plate 22. Similar buckle. Sold |
| KATE
HARRIS (fl. 1898-1920) for WILLIAM HUTTON & SONS
A rare silver two piece buckle.
English. Maker’s marks. Hallmarks for London 1900. Size:
Height 3.7 cm. Width 8.5 cm.
Lit.: A Marriage of Art and Commerce. Stephen Pudney.
Silver Society Journal. Gürtelschließen des Jugendstils.
Karl Kreuzer. Illustration page 22. (Fitted case)
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OLIVER
BAKER (1856-1939) for LIBERTY & Co.
A silver buckle set central plaque of abalone the side sections
of spot hammered
stylised scrollwork.
Marked ‘L & Co. Cymric’. Hallmarks for B’ham
1901. Size: Ht. 6.8 cm. Width 10.6 cm.
(Fitted case) Liberty Jewellery sketch book number 107.
Sold |
LEVINGER & BISSINGER.
A set of three Jugendstil silver enamelled buttons each set with
a cabochon garnet.
Anglo/German. Marked for Levinger
& Bissinger, ‘900’
and ‘Depose’.
Size: Dia. 2.5 cm. Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich
1895-1914. Ulrike von Hase. Jugendstil-Schmuck // Art Nouveau
Jewellery from Pforzheim. Fritz Falk.
Sold |
MAX JOSEPH GRADL
(1873-1934) for THEODOR FAHRNER
A large, rare Jugendstil silver buckle set with green chalcedony.
German. Circa 1900. Marks: ‘TF ’‘935’
‘Sterling’. Size: Height 4.8 cm. Width 8.2 cm.
Lit.: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Sold |
ALBERT HOLBEIN
(1869-1934) (Attrib.)
A Jugendstil, Fabulous Griffin Beast silver comb, having a plique-a-jour
body and with its wings set with chrysoprase. A pearl clutched
in its beak.
(Crazing to the plique-a-jour and repair to horn comb)
German. Circa 1900.
Marks: ‘DGRM’ ‘900’ and Austrian silver
import mark.
Size: Width of silver comb 6.3 cm. Total height of comb 14.7 cm.
Lit.: Art Nouveau Jewellery. Vivienne Becker. 1985.
Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895-1914.
Ulrike von Hase. (Fitted case)  |
THEODOR FAHRNER
. MURRLE BENNETT & Co.
A set four Jugendstil silver enamelled buttons.
Anglo/German. Marked ‘TF, MB & Co., DEPOSE, REG, 925,
SILVER.’
London import hallmark for 1903. (Fitted case) Sold |
LIBERTY &
Co.
A silver, two piece buckle, enamelled with blue and green enamels.
English. Marked ‘L. & Co.’ Hallmarks for 1911.
Size: Height 4.2 cm. Width 8.1 cm.
Lit.: Liberty Style. Academy Editions. Illus. B50. Sold |
EVALD NIELSEN (1879-1958)
A large silver buckle of leaves and blossoms set malachite
and labradorite.
Denmark. Circa 1910. Size: Height: 6 cm. Width
10.6 cm. (Fitted case)
Marked ‘Evald Nielsen 830 ’. Lit.: Danish Jewellery.
Jacob Thage. Sold |
BERTHA L. GOFF
A silver belt with a three panel buckle depicting winged cherubs.
The links
depicting cherubs engaged in various pursuits. Provenance:
The artist’s great niece.
English. Circa 1902. Unmarked. Size of buckle 10 cm. 3.1 cm. Length
of belt 70.2 cm.
Lit.: The National Art Exhibition catalogue 1902 and The Studio
1906. Sold
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JOHN BAKER BENNETT
& Co. A LIBERTY & Co. design.
A two piece silver buckle set turquoise.
English. Maker’s mark. Hallmarks for B’ham
1906.
Size: Height 4.9 cm. Width 8 cm. Liberty catalogue 1903, no. 83.
Sold |
JOHN EDWARD WILSON
(1854-1934)
A large, two piece, silver buckle set with blue/green foil backed
enamel.
Each panel with a ‘W’
monogram to reverse. Provenance: Family descent.
English. Circa 1910. Size: Height 5.8 cm. Width 10.8 cm. (Fitted
case) Sold |
KATE HARRIS (fl.
1898-1920) for WILLIAM HUTTON & SONS.
A silver three piece ‘The Child’ belt buckle.
(Fitted case)
English. Hallmarks for London 1903. Numbered 2086. Size: Ht. 5 cm.
W. 10.5 cm.
Lit.: A Marriage of Art and Commerce. Stephen Pudney. Silver
Society Journal. Sold |
KATE HARRIS (fl.
1898-1920) for WILLIAM HUTTON & SONS
A set of Arts & Crafts silver buttons, depicting the head
of the ‘Puritan Maid’.
(Original fitted case)
English. Maker’s mark and hallmarks for London 1899. Size:
Diameter 2.4cm.
Lit.: A Marriage of Art and Commerce. Stephen Pudney.
Silver Society Journal. Sold |
KATE HARRIS (fl.
1898-1920) for WILLIAM HUTTON & SONS
An Arts & Crafts silver belt. The buckle & panels depicting
the profile of a child.
Some additional circular links added previously to increase length
of belt.
English. Maker’s marks and hallmarks
for B’ham 1903 to buckle and all panels.
Size: Width of buckle 4.5 cm. height. 4.2 cm. Length of belt 65
cm. |
MAX JOSEPH GRADL
(1873-1934) for THEODOR FAHRNER
A set of six silver buttons set with turquoise stones.
Anglo/German. 1902. Marked to the reverse ‘T F’
and marks for Murrle Bennett & Co. Hallmarks for 1902. (Fitted
case)
Lit.: Theodor Fahrner Jewelry. Pub. Schiffer. Similar jewellery
page 94. Sold |
OLIVER BAKER (1856-1939)
for LIBERTY & Co.
A silver buckle set turquoise.
Marked ‘L & Co.’
Hallmarks for B’ham 1900. Size: Height 5.5 cm. Width 7.3 cm.
Lit.: Liberty Style. Academy Editions.
Sold |
KATE HARRIS (fl.
1898-1920) for WILLIAM HUTTON & SONS.
A silver three piece ‘Puritan Maid’ belt buckle.
English. Maker’s mark and hallmarks for London 1899.
Size: Height 6 cm. Width 11.5 cm. (Buckle case)
Lit.: Simplicity or Splendor. Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum,
object 120. Sold |