Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Wine

Online-Only Auction, 4 - 16 March 2020

Decorative Arts

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ZAR 34 003
Lot 404
  • A George V silver 'Fern' pattern flatware service, John Sanderson, Sheffield, 1911


Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 30 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 34 003

About this Item

Sheffield, England
A George V silver 'Fern' pattern flatware service, John Sanderson, Sheffield, 1911
comprising: twelve dinner forks, eighteen dinner spoons, a pair of sauce ladles, a soup ladle, a basting spoon, a pair of fish servers, a pair of mustard spoons, a pair of butter knives, four salt spoons, a pickle fork, eighteen dessert forks, eighteen dessert spoons, a pair of grape scissors, six coffee spoons, twelve teaspoons, a sugar sifter, a pair of sugar tongs, and two pairs of nutcrackers, each terminal engraved with a 'D', oxidisation, wear, 6555g all in; twelve plated tea knives, Webber & Hill; and an oak canteen, early 20th century, the moulded rectangular top inset with a shield-shaped brass cartouche engraved with initials, the front with a pair of panelled doors enclosing four blue baize-lined drawers, the sides with recessed brass carrying-handles, raised on a moulded base, the interior with distress, cracks, staining, 33,5cm high, 52,5cm wide, 40cm deep
(117)

Provenance

This canteen of cutlery was originally ordered, as a commemorative Mayoral gift to Major Walter Baxendale, in recognition of services provided by him in his capacity as Mayor of Bulawayo, an office which he had filled over two terms, from 1904 to 1906, and from 1912 to 1913.

Before the canteen could be presented to him, Baxendale as a member of the Southern Rhodesian Volunteers, was killed in action against the Germans at Ngominyi, in Tanzania, during the course of 1916, and was subsequently buried in the war cemetery at nearby Iringa. Had he lived to take delivery of his gift it would, in the course of time, have been inherited by his son, Oliver, and then by his eldest daughter, Margaret.

After his death, the canteen was put up for auction, and was bought by William H B Douslin, Director of Public Works in Bulawayo.  Douslin and Baxendale shared a common link in having both come to Rhodesia as Pioneers in 1895.  Having no direct descendants of his own, William left the canteen to his nephew, H B J (Baffie) Dugmore, who in turn left it to his son, Peter. Peter, in 1961, married Walter Baxendale’s granddaughter Margaret – so the canteen, which would, in the normal course of events been hers by inheritance, instead found its way back to her by marriage.

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