Important South African Paintings, Furniture, Silver, Ceramics and Glass

Live Auction, 7 March 2011

Furniture, Silver, Ceramics, Glass, Paintings, Prints and Sculpture
  • A Cape silver book clasp, apparently unmarked, 19th century


Lot Estimate
ZAR 3 000 - 5 000

About this Item

A Cape silver book clasp, apparently unmarked, 19th century

engraved with flowerheads within wrigglework borders, some damage, mounted on a Dutch psalter, the end-paper inscribed "GM Malherbe, Paarl, 24 July 1862"


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