Absolutely Fantastic Quality Rare Fully Hallmarked
Superb Antique (1920s) Ornate & Intricate English Manoah Rhodes & Sons Registered Design Solid Sterling Silver Four Piece Tea Set With Beautiful 24ct Gold Gilt Interior (2kg).
This is a superb opportunity to acquire a breathtaking piece of British silversmith history. Work of master craftsmen of the highest order. Needs to be seen and handled to be fully appreciated as the photographs really do not do the set justice. If you are looking for one of these sets, you’d be extremely hard pressed to find anything remotely like it. The set is fit for a king! It’s absolutely breathtakingly flamboyant, elaborate and extravagant. Fit to grace the best of tables anywhere on earth. It’s a marvellous centrepiece set. Real sought after collector’s pieces. The set is ostentatious. Designed to impress.
Please browse all 12 sets of photographs for size, weight and condition as they are self explanatory. If you require more photographs please advise and I will gladly send you more.
This set is superbly ornate and intricate. Consists of a coffee pot, teapot, sugar bowl & creamer. Two kilograms of solid silver beautifully gold plated with 24ct gold and in remarkable condition despite being close to 100 years old. In fact the registration number 597941 dates the actual registration of the design to exactly 1912 whilst the actual Sheffield hallmarks on these pieces date them from 1920 to 1923 during the reign of King George V.
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
Condition is absolutely fantastic as shown in 12 sets of photographs attached. Please browse all photographs for details and condition. There are no dents nor any damage or any scratches. If you are extremely fussy I would say there are very minor friction marks that are impossible to notice unless you look for them very closely, the gold gilding is intact and in showroom condition.
if you require a suitable tray or salver please advise as I also have a fantastic ornate, heavy solid silver tray to sell to you as a separate item. Please ask for photographs if you need any.
Manoah Rhodes and sons were esteemed English silvermaker, watchmaker and jewellers with showrooms at 45 Kirkgate, Bradford, Yorkshire, 31 St Bridge Street, Ludgate Circus, London and 64 Hatton Garden, London.
The business was founded by Manoah Rhodes in Bradford in 1836. Maker of gold and silver watches, jewellery and silver plate. The business grew into one of the largest jewellers in the north of England. Manoah Rhodes died in March 1881 and in 1888 the firm converted into a limited liability company known as Manoah Rhodes & Sons Ltd. Other names associated with the company were Ackroyd Rhodes & Manoah Rhodes & Sons, Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes & Barber
Manoah Rhodes was born in Morley, Yorkshire, on the 7th March 1810, he was Baptised at his families local church on the 21st March 1810, and was educated at the Endowed Grammar School at nearby Batley.
On the 9th November 1822 he was indentured to the Bradford silversmith John Allott, to whom he was to remain with for fourteen years. The year 1836 saw Rhodes set up business for himself in Bradford, it was a venture that was to grow into one of the largest jewellers in the North of England. Also in that year Manoah Rhodes married Ann Watson and they went on to raise a family of six sons and two daughters.
A noted Freemason and devout Wesleyan Methodist, Rhodes was known as an honourable and generous man and was held in high esteem, he was to serve the people of Bradford in many postions including his appointment as Mayor of the Corporation of Bradford in the period November 1873-November 1874.
Manoah Rhodes died in March 1881 and in 1888 the firm coverted into a limited liability company known as Manoah Rhodes & Sons Ltd. with (Thomas) Ackroyd Rhodes as the managing director.
The 'AR' trefoil mark of Ackroyd Rhodes, in three sizes, appears to be the first entered for this firm at the London Assay Office on the 12th August 1893, the address entered as 31, St Bride Street, Ludgate Circus, London. The second, in four sizes, from 64, Hatton Garden, was entered on the 28th August 1895. The third entry from the address of 45, Kirkgate, Bradford* was entered on the 18th December 1907 and this was followed by further entries on the 30th June and 4th August 1910, both of three sizes, from the Bradford address.
The firm also entered their mark at the Sheffield Assay Office on the 7th January 1907, again this was from the Kirkgate, Bradford address.
Ackroyd Rhodes died in 1915, and the firm was then under the control of F.C.M.S. Rhodes.
The premises situated at 45, Kirkgate are not without interest. Manoah Rhodes had traded for forty years from a shop at the junction of Westgate and Kirkgate, he then had errected, what was described as ' one of the handsomest jewellery establishments in the provinces' on the site of John Allott's premises, his former employer.
This business is said to have been established in 1836. The partners Manoah Rhodes, who retired in 1881, Manoah Sharpley Rhodes, who retired in 1885 and Joseph Rhodes, who retired in 1888 when the firm was registered as a limited company under the style Manoah Rhodes & Sons Ltd.
Sources:
The History and Antiquities of Morley--William Smith-1876
Historial Notes on the Bradford Corporation--William Cudworth-1881
Marks of London Goldsmiths and Silversmiths 1837-1914--John P. Fallon-1992
The Directory of Gold & Silversmiths--John Culme-1987
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