Sell or Auction Your 16 Baltimore Silversmiths Manufacturing Company Silver Plates for up to Nearly $10,000 or More at Nate D. Sanders Auctions
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The Schofield Company (1903–1977) (aka Herr-Schofield, aka the Baltimore Silversmiths Manufacturing Company) was a Baltimore area silver company, whose best known pattern was Baltimore Rose.
Below is a recent realized price for 16 Baltimore Silversmiths Manufacturing Company silver plates. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:
16 Baltimore Silversmiths Manufacturing Company Silver Plates. Sold for nearly $10,000.
We have sold the following items at auction:
China Plate From Thomas Jefferson’s White House — Very Scarce, in Near Fine Condition
Very scarce and beautiful china plate from the administration of Thomas Jefferson. Soup plate made of white Chinese porcelain is painted blue with gilt accents. Features a shallow bowl with gilt ”J” at center, inside a shield that bears a knight’s head decoration. Plate measures 9.5” in diameter, and is near fine. Sold for $26,121.
Very rare Lincoln White House china plate ordered by Mary Todd in early 1865. Plate is from the known ”Buff Set”, a less ornate and rather minimal design used for everyday occasions at the White House. Most of the Buff Set collection is now housed in the White House or the Smithsonian, with very few pieces still in private hands. Cream colored dish with a buff border and gilt circular edge also has a gilt circle at center. Made by ”J.K. Kerr” of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, whose company was known as ”China House” or ”China Hall.” This was the second set ordered by Mary Todd, just two months before the President’s assassination, and the bill for the china remained outstanding until Johnson took office. With a copy of a notarized letter as provenance from the original family who owned this plate, whose great grandfather bought the pieces at auction in the 1880’s. Provenance also includes copies of letters from both the Smithsonian and The White House, to whom the family gave other pieces of this china set. The letters confirm the history of the pieces and thank the family for the donations. Plate has a ”581/30” tiny sticker attached to verso and no other markings or denotations. Minor flecks of wear, else very good to near fine condition. Sold for $8,711.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt Official White House China Dinner Plate — Fine
Rare White House exhibit collection china plate of the design commissioned by President and First Lady Franklin Roosevelt. Underside of dinner plate features the famed Lenox official watermark and reads, “Exhibit Collection for Lenox Inc. / The White House 1934”. As a part of the “exhibit collection”, plate is designated to serve in displays of White House china or go on loan to various Presidential exhibits. Design features the Great Seal of the U.S. in full color on the rim, with rim edge displaying a navy blue stripe dotted with gilt stars and flanked by gilt bands and a single gilt ring around the center. Made by Lenox, one of the United States’ only producers of ”bone china”, which is distinguished for its white luminosity and chip resistance. Measures 11.5″ in diameter, in fine condition. Sold for $4,875.
Scarce President Woodrow Wilson Official White House China Plate
Rare White House china plate commissioned by President and First Lady Wilson. Made by Lenox, one of the United States’ only producers of ”bone china”, which is distinguished for its white luminosity and chip resistance. Verso of plate features the famed Lenox official watermark, ”Exhibit Collection for Lenox Inc. / The White House 1918”. As a part of the ”exhibit collection” which prominently displayed china in the White House or was offered on loan to various Presidential exhibits. Plate depicts the Great Seal of the U.S. at center in gilt, with a border of two gold bands. Plate measures 10.5” in diameter and is in fine condition. Sold for $3,125.
Stately Ronald Reagan Presidential Dinner Plate
White House china plate from the Reagan administration. Elegant ivory color dinner plate with heavy black rim features a gilt presidential seal at the top and star-patterned gilt edge. Underside bears the maker’s mark of Castleton Studios. A pinhead-sized flaw to the top edge of the seal has undergone expert repair, else near fine. Sold for $3,049.
China Plate From Eisenhower’s Presidential Airplane Service
Dwight Eisenhower china plate from his presidential airplane ”Columbine”. Mamie Eisenhower named the Lockheed C-121 Constellations (VC-121E) airplane after the state flower of Colorado and chose china to match; ivory colored dinner plate features a pair of blue columbine flowers and the president’s initials ”D.D.E.” in gilt. Underside is stamped, ”The Presidential Plane / COLUMBINE / Washington, D.C. / May 1956 / Shenango China”. Plate, rimmed in gold, measures 10” in diameter. Near fine. Sold for $2,520.
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