The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Cape Silver Collection

Live Virtual Auction, 9 July 2025

The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection
About the Session

This auction features the notable private Cape silver collection of Mary Eleanor Hibbert assembled over many decades and featuring rare pieces, including a double beaker, alms dish, sugar bowls, snuff boxes and 18ct gold clasps from the golden age of Cape silversmithing. Master silversmiths included in this collection are Willem Godfried Lotter, Lawrence Holme Twentyman, Johannes Casparus Lotter, Johan Hendrik Vos and Jan Lotter.


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ZAR 16 415
Lot 38
  • A Cape silver pap boat, Frederick David Waldek, c.1830-1877
  • A Cape silver pap boat, Frederick David Waldek, c.1830-1877


Lot Estimate
ZAR 10 000 - 12 000
Selling Price
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ZAR 16 415
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About this Item

Cape Colony
A Cape silver pap boat, Frederick David Waldek, c.1830-1877
rim with applied foliate border, 110g,12cm long

Provenance

The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection

Strauss and Co, 7 March 2011 lot 139

Notes

Fredrik David Waldek, born in the Cape, was the son of Johannes Waldek of Immenhausen in Hesse-Kassel and Dorothea Florentina Jensen (or Jansen) of the Cape. He began his career in 1830 as a chronometer and clockmaker at 99 Long Street, later working from various prominent addresses in Cape Town over a span of nearly five decades. From 1834 to 1835, he was based at 4 Hout Street, and then moved to 30 Heerengracht (1836–1840), where he also worked as a jeweller and manufacturer of plate and jewellery. Between 1841 and 1850, he operated from both Herman Cottage, 2 Hof Street, and 31 Heerengracht. He then continued his trade from 7 Adderley Street (1851–1853), 30 Adderley Street at the corner of Wale Street (1854–1855 and again 1857–1862), and 30 St Georges Street in 1856. From 1863 to 1868, he worked at 64 St Georges Street, followed by 4 Wale Street (1869–1871), 42 Long Street (1872), and finally from Garden “Waterhof” (1873–1877). In addition to his extensive career, Waldek had two brothers, Jacobus Petrus and Christiaan Isaac, who were also jewellers; both died in their father’s house in Hout Street in 1837.

Stephan Welz (1976) Cape Silver and Silversmiths, Cape Town: AA Balkema.

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