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Sun, Jun 12, 2022 02:00PM EDT
Lot 145

Tiffany Sterling Dolphin and Shell Center Bowl

Estimate: $12,000 - $15,000
Unsold

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$100 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000
$200,000 $25,000
$500,000 $50,000

The oval lobed silver gilt basin with everted rim cast with a band of shells and dolphins raised on foliate scrolled supports.

Monogrammed.

Inscribed to underside: Andrew Bell Forbes, a birthday remembrance, from his friends and associates in the

Mutual Life,

Mew York, July 15th 1899

Andrew Bell Forbes was a California Argonaut, arriving in SF via Panama in 1849. He didn't head to the gold fields but became an agent for the lucrative Pacific Mail Steamship Company shipping mail and goods from Panama to all the west coast cities of California and Oregon, he and later a manager for the Mutual Life of New York.

Date mark T 1892-1902.

Marked to underside: TIFFANY & CO. 

1994 Makers 3359

Sterling Silver 925-1000.

T

9 pints

Condition

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