Anthony Bernbaum, founder The peartree collection

Another snippet from the Harts’ Silversmiths Guild of Handicraft archive. This time the visitors book. Elisa de Szasz, wife of Tsombor, together huge patrons of Ashbee, signed the Guild’s visitor book on 3rd August 1906.  Was she taking delivery of the coffee pot in the Collection stock code A12, made for the Tsombors and assayed for 1904/5. I like to think so.

A trip to see Hart Silversmith’s at the Guild of Handicraft in Chipping Campden paid dividends when I found an original photo of the the recently listed opal set box I am selling. It is such an unusual design I think almost certainly the exact box. Full details at this link.

Archibald Knox’s influence on European design is a theme I like to explore and a bowl has emerged at auction that is a near copy of Knox’s Ostia bowl designed in 1898. It is by leading Swedish silversmith Gustav Mollenberg, dated 1905. See links below.

Link to the Knox Ostia

Link to the Mollenberg Swedish Ostia

I have just listed a whole host of new items, and my related newsletter can be found at this link

A rare and rather lovely silver and enamel bowl has lead me to research the somewhat forgetten but very interesting Henry Ambrose Pudsey Littledale. See this link.

Without doubt, I recently listed (and sold) one of my most exciting finds. A “spaceship” Liberty Cymric inkwell. Full details at this link

My latest newsletter for December can be found at this link.

My recent selling Exhibition has finished. Thank you to all those who came and made it such a successful and enjoyable event. Some fine pieces have sadly departed the Collection! Photos below of the Exhibition itself.

Click on this link to see my latest Exhibition catalogue of silver masterworks by Charles Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft

I am delighted to announced that The Peartree Collection will be holding a “pop-up” selling exhibition 14-17th October to coincide with Frieze Masters and BADA week. The exhibition will be held in Mayfair, London. Please contact me for an invitation.