South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts

Live Auction, 4 February 2013

Decorative Arts
  • A Cape silver book clasp, Johannes Marthinus Lotter, 19th century


Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000

About this Item

A Cape silver book clasp, Johannes Marthinus Lotter, 19th century

engraved with flowerheads within wrigglework borders, the inside of the clasp engraved with the initials "ECdK", mounted on a Dutch psalter; and another, apparently unmarked, 19th century, engraved with flowerheads within wrigglework borders, mounted on a Dutch psalter, the end-paper inscribed "GM Malherbe, Paarl, 24 July 1862", some damage

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