| INDEX | ALL SILVER |
| DESCRIPTION | Good antique English solid sterling silver inkstand on four hoof feet and with pen receiver and silver lidded cut glass bottle. If you lift out the bottle it becomes a most impressive mobile phone rest. |
| SILVERSMITH | Charles Stuart Harris & Sons, also marked to base for the Bristol Goldsmiths' Alliance who in this instance were most likely acting as retailer rather than manufacturer. |
| DATE or HALLMARK | 1913 |
| ASSAY OFFICE | London |
| WEIGHT in GRAMS | silver base only 205, item total 403 |
| LENGTH | 6 ¾", 171mm |
| SILVER STANDARD | ·925 sterling silver |
| CONDITION | good, bright and clean, no engraving or erasure, nice hinge, little dig and tiny soft bumps/marks either side of bottle that are mostly polished smooth but I have been able to pick out in image 2, chip to rear left corner of the bottle's bottom that is totally concealed within the silver recess and does not enter the bottle |
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| SOLD |
| Price £238 |
| item number m8231 |
| Available Inkstands & Wells |
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