Bidspirit auction | Rare J.E. Caldwell Sterling Crab


Rare J.E. Caldwell Sterling Crab Plate & More - J.E. Caldwell sterling silver arts and crafts period crab and oyster dish with hammered finish and monogrammed on top and bottom (approx 315g). Small sterling silver arts and crafts period hammered plate with copper highlighted fish and crab (approx 3” dia, approx 36g). Bailey, Banks and Biddle Company sugar/creamer (no lid, approx 147g) and mustard / jelly lid with fly on finial (approx 43g). Total weight approx 541g. (From the direct descendants of Baynard & Mary Gibson Henry. Both were prominent figures and contributors in Philadelphia. Mary Gibson Henry was a notable botanist and her plant collections were the first in creation of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia.)