Estimate 10000 euros to 120 grams of silver

Unfairly forlorn, silversmithing was able to retain its faithful square. Their intention, several lighthouses sales are organized during the month of November. "Now, who would claim live with elegance and fortune should evolve in a rich, Golden on the possible framework and recalling old times.".In the "History of morals" encyclopedia (1), fire the auctioneer and academician Maurice Rheims told the taste of the former, which furthered the wealthy in the 19th century, before noted with premonition current changes: "has some signs, the impression is that things will change.". This is that after two centuries in the anticomanie to the fetish of the former tomorrow's society is set to discover a new sensitivity. "This new sensitivity, it is the desire to have around you objects of his time. In the art market, examples abound. The former has less rating and objects related to lifestyles of the past centuries see prices fall by dizzying manner.

Among the major victims of the phenomenon, in addition to the classic said French furniture, there is gold. Obligations of maintenance, objects designed as instruments of obsolete social practices, mould decoration objects... There are many reasons or pretexts which justify the fall in ratings in the field of silversmithing. In times of crisis and search for reliable values, should know however that any production in the area, and this until the 19th century, was carried out in solid silver (and not in silver or plated silver). Elsewhere in sales catalogues, weight of money - with the exception of knives - is systematically indicated.

A treasure at the bottom of a garden

Philippe Serret is expert at auction in Paris and in the region and it organizes not less than 120 sales per year. He testified: "classic French silver coins sell well more difficult than in the past." A pair of torches of the 18th century, simple decoration, which weigh about 1 kg, awarded 30,000 francs 15 years ago today share for 3,000 euros. "He adds:"it is a paradox, but auction, modern money objects are sold cheaper than those cars manufactured in silvery metal. One should purchase money at auction. This is an area that, thanks to the punches and the documentation is particularly safe. "He gives the example of a part of housewife in the 1950s in style Louis XV, the total weighing 5.5 kilograms, proposed on 27 November at Drouot with an estimate of 2,000 euros or, on the same day, 62 pieces of another model style Board (3.9 kilos) signed Puiforcat, estimated 1,000 euros.

The original, rare sets or quality, are few in the conventional auctions in France. Independent auctioneers do not meet their efforts to organize catalogs with attractive parts which could, perhaps, renew the public of the purchasers of the silver.

In Paris however, Sotheby's organizes twice a year, at the initiative of the expert House Lachaise Thierry, auctions which have become global rendezvous of lovers. The next such operation takes place on 9 November. The whole feature should be a treasure consisting of verseuses, sections and other silver dating from the 1500s spoons and found by chance in his garden by an individual living near Verdun. Even if it appears in the catalog and if it is exposed at Sotheby's until 8 November, it was finally surrendered against 1.4 million euros, before the auction at the Museum of Lorraine in Nancy, with the help of the State, local and regional authorities and of an unknown patron who takes advantage of the tax deduction of 90 with the classification of these objects as "national treasure".

Prestigious pedigree

The sale contains little cheap lots, but rather parts high-end, those whose values are on the rise. A rare punch, of very decorative forms, of exceptional formats... This is the case of the original production of the 19th century, which records, according to Thierry of Lachaise, the more backward curve for several years. A spectacular bucket to cool silver and vermilion-shaped head of deer, manufactured in Vienna by 1880 high of 32 centimetres, is estimated of 20,000 euros. In the range of oversized (88 centimetres high) and for the same estimate, there is this small table of the 1870s by Christofle, made money with veneer of gold in ancient style.

In the 19th century in France, one of the great names of silversmithing is Odiot. An Ewer in vermeil Cove, formed of a sea horse, was conducted by the Goldsmith early 19th century and relates the figures of the Princess Sophia of England and his brother Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, is also estimated 20,000 euros. A prestigious pedigree significantly affect the value.

The more "design" of the sale is a "Cup of hunting" Silver hit the punch of Boulogne-sur-Mer to 1704. This small object was designed in the form of bean hollow to adapt perfectly to the Palm of the hand of the Hunter not his horse down to drink at the fountain. Its clean design evokes the forms of a creator of today such as Marc Newson. Only for specialist. Estimate: 10,000 euros to 120 grams of silver. It took 3.900 grams more to create a special Ewer, certainly made in the Brazil in the 18th century, high 58 cm. In comparison, it is reasonably estimated: 15,000 euros.