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 49 245
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  • A Cape silver salver, Daniel Heinrich Schmidt, c.1768-1811
  • A Cape silver salver, Daniel Heinrich Schmidt, c.1768-1811
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ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
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Daniel Heinrich Schmidt
Cape Colony
A Cape silver salver, Daniel Heinrich Schmidt, c.1768-1811
square with moulded borders and incurved corners moulded in relief with a spray of flowers bordered by a ribbon, raised on four bracket-shaped feet, 1185g,31,5cm

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The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection

Notes

From Strelitz, Germany, Daniel Heinrich Schmidt arrived at the Cape as a soldier in 1768. He served as sword-cutler in the service of the Dutch East India company from 1768 to 1778, receiving his burgher rights as silversmith in 1779. He married Helena Elizabeth Bastroo on 26 September 1779 and died on 29 December 1811.
Daniel Heinrich Schmidt produced some of the finest Cape silver when compared to his contemporaries and in "A History Of Cape Silver" the author David Heller states: "As a master-craftsman Daniel Heinrich Schmidt may be compared - and not to his disadvantage - with Paul Storr, the most celebrated silversmith of the late George III period with whom he was contemporary. Both were deservedly famous in their respective countries…."

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

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