Top price of £17,500 for 19th century salt cellars

WITH a total of £125,000 spent, Hamilton Osborne King's auction of silver last Wednesday was a predictable success. The day's highest price of £17,500 was paid for a set of eight circular cast salt cellars made by Philip Rundell of London in 1820, with eight spoons en suite of the same date and made by Paul Storr. A very substantial presentation wine cooler on a pedestal by Odiot of Paris, circa 1830, went for £13,000, while £6,000 was paid for both a 1774 set of 12 dinner plates by Andrew Fogelberg of London and a campana shaped trophy cup and cover by Reily & Storer of London, dating from 1836.

A set of four early 19th century English navette shaped tureens went for £4,900 and a set of four 1775 neo classical Sheffield silver candlesticks fetched £4,800. Other good prices included £4,600 for a late 19th century Sheffield two handled gallery tray; £1,700 for a large Dublin presentation salver, dated 1832; and £1,600 for a Tiffany pitcher.