Featured Sterling basket with cranberry glass insert

Picked up this small sterling basket this past week. Stamped for St. Louis jewelry store, Mermod Jaccard & Co. I found this name first used in the 1870s and changed sometime later to Mermod Jaccard & King. I believe them to be the retailer. Is the other mark a Gorham mark? date range? Can not find another example of this. 4 3/4" diameter. Cranberry insert fits perfectly and has a ground pontil mark. For candies? Any other input is appreciated.

 

Beautiful, Brad. @Bakersgma .

 

It's lovely, now all it needs is a polish

 

That is really lovely, Brad...a treasure!

 

WOW! Sterling and with the original liner. If I'm lucky I find plated ones. If.

 

Good eye Brad !!!!!!

 

Yes that is a Gorham mark.

 

Not too difficult when an item is marked so obviously. I was shocked. This was at an out of town Goodwill that always has the worst junk. If they think they have anything good, it is priced sky high. I usually go because their clothes are more reasonable than the other Goodwill's. I never expect to get anything really good there.

 

Probably no one else does either, for the same reasons. So no one was looking and there it sat .

 

& some clownfart had to donate that......

 

Hi Brad,
Great find!
The first mentions of Mermod, Jaggard and King are after 1903 or so. King was the president of the company that advertised itself “as the world’s grandest jewelry establishment” around that time ( info from a thread on 925).

Gorham used a yearmark system on the holloware from 1868 to 1933.
It should therefore have a small yearmark somewhere.
Is the number A(?)1292?

And not for candles, methinks, but for bon bons etc.

 

I am drooling! Is it not big enough to be a brides basket?

 

I have a small Gorham basket with a handle and the same hallmark, plus a yearmark —scissors— right under it. Scissors are the 1907 yearmark. Am I imagining things or is there possibly a mall mark in Brad’s photo, too? Just under the anchor?

 

I can't see any indication of a year mark under the Gorham mark in your photo. Brad will need to clean at least that part of the basket to reveal a mark assuming there is one there (which there should be as noted.)

 

Nice bon-bon dish. The holloware date codes didn't always make it onto every piece, but the 'A' prefix on the production number indicates dating from 1898 into the early 1930s (this piece almost certainly early in that window)...

~Cheryl

 

Beautiful find, Brad!

 

Looks like it is in pristine condition. Nice find!

 

ya, the glass bowl is the kicker.....in perfect condition....and likely kept folks from seeing the sterling mark..

 

... so looks like this dates to 1898-1903 due to the A prefix for the production number and the lack of King in the name. There is no Gorham date stamp. The marks are all on the underside of the silver, so not where they were obscured by the bowl. Not big enough for a bride's basket but for candies (not candles) as I suggested.... or bon bons as others suggest. Ran across the term bonbonnier. I thought this to be a person, a candy maker, but it appears to also be a box or dish.

I know this needs a good polish. I will do so and post a photo when I get it done. Thank you to everyone who posted here!

 

OK...then how about.....no one wanted to turn the dish upside down for fear the glass would drop out ..... huh...huh..!!!!!