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A pair of Chinese export silver fiddle and thread pattern…
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Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
20-Nov-2011
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A pair of Chinese export silver fiddle and thread pattern dessert spoons by Khecheong, club Street, Honan Island, Canton each engraved in script E Hunt, for Elizabeth Hunt, wife of Thomas Hunt and with pseudo English marks, King's head/Crowned leopard' head/Khc/unidentified character, 18.5 cm long. Reference: for a table spoon and fork from, the same service in the Museum of the American china trade see; Chinese export silver 1785 - 1885 by Ha Crosby Forbes, John Devereux Kernan and Ruth Wilkins. Note: Elizabeth Cook was born in 1809 at Salem, Massachusetts. She married Thomas Hunt, also of Salem in 1834. Thomas Hunt and his brother-in-law James Cook, sailed to china in the late 1840's to establish a ship's chandlery shipping business and dry-dock at Whampoa Anchorage., the vessels they brought out were converted into houseboats, a bethel and storage hulks. Hunt lived in one of the hulks moored in the river and brought his wife and seven year old Son, Thomas Franklin Hunt to live with him
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Unclassified