Tag archives: silver
JB has admired a (now tarnished) silver handled basket with a clear glass lining since she was a kid. She calls it her grandmother’s German Silver Bride’s Basket. It is a filigreed reticulated silver metal object with a fancy pierced basket handle, a flaring dramatic profile, and artistic classical-style silhouettes of plaques of flowers and […]
How do we determine the value of things? Is it only the question of what people will pay? Some American railroad tycoon of the “Robber Baron” era spoke in terms of exacting “all the traffic will bear” – meaning that he charged not what seemed fair or reasonable, but simply as much as he could […]
The “Christmas at the Casa” gala this year was all about silver. Silver cloths on all the tables with greens sprayed silver and lighted cabinets on display filled with pieces of silver George Steedman had made in the ‘30s and ‘40s. He’s known to have made about one hundred pieces between 1927 and 1940, when […]
