Antique Asprey Silver folding penknife fruit knife London 1888. Fully hallmarked and steel blades also stamped Asprey. The sterling silver knife with original traces of vermeil and richly decorated with ornate scroll foliage design. Hallmarked both sides. Length: open 6.75 inches, closed 3.25 inches. Item Weight: 32 grams.
Antique Asprey Silver folding penknife fruit knife London 1888.
by Louis Wine€360
Antique Asprey Silver folding penknife fruit knife London 1888.
Louis Wine
Louis Wine Ltd., Toronto specialists in Antique Silver , Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts, are a 4th generation family business.Louis Wine (1865-1946) founded the company in Dublin, Ireland in 1880. Louis Wine began selling to silver collectors in Dublin from a shop in historic Wellington Quay. In 1908, he located on Dublin's fashionable Grafton Street. To the firm came the worlds leading Georgian Silver collectors. Pieces by Paul de Lamerie, Paul Storr, Hester Bateman and Irish Georgian Silver were constantly on display. Our gallery run by Richard (Louis Wine's great grandson) at 150 Cumberland Street (Yorkville), Toronto, displays a range of fine Antique Silver, Old Sheffield Plate, Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts from the 18th-20th century, including Bateman, Storr, Ramsden, Tiffany, Knox, Liberty, Jensen, Christopher Dresser.
