Adam's AT HOME AUCTION July 5th 2020

23 For female silversmiths they often started their training and commercial production in the silversmith workshop of their father and continued there until marriage. The idea of a separate identity as a silversmith was lost during a partnership with their husband. It re-emerged only after the husband’s death when the widow was then afforded the opportunity to enter her own mark, succeeding to that of her husband active in the craft. Mary & Elizabeth Sumner, were presumably the widow and daughter of silversmith William Sumner I. The first mark of their partnership was entered in 1809. 29 A MATCHED SET OF SEVEN IRISH GEORGIAN SILVER PLAIN TAPER HANDLED POINT-END SOUP SPOONS, all Dublin, two 1767, three 1763 and two rubbed, five with matching crests, two engraved with ini- tials ‘JN’,(c.16 troy ozs all in). Each approx. 23cm long. € 300 - 500 30 AN IRISH PROVINCIAL SILVER BRIGHTCUT ENGRAVED TABLE SPOON, Limerick c. 1780, struck twice with makers mark Morris Fitzgerald, together with another brightcut spoon, struck with makers initial “W.G.”, (c.4 troy ozs all in). Table spoon 23cm long; the other 26cm long € 300 - 400 28 A MATCHED SET OF SIX GEORGE III SILVER DESSERT SPOONS, London 1814, comprising a set of four, mark of Mary & Elizabeth Sumner and a pair mark of Thomas Hayter, each with corresponding crest of identical design, (c.8 troy ozs all in). Each ap- prox. 17.5cm long € 100 - 200