Topic: Nathan & Ridley, Chester (split from Re: Water jug)

[chopin-liszt]

 

Good find, then Anne!

Thanks ever so much for that link, TC, I finally managed to id my tea service from it!!!!

I inherited it from my Grandma on my 18th. I'd managed to find out it was Chester, 1902, but was never, until now, able to id the maker, which I now know is George Nathan & Ridley Hayes!

However, I still wish I'd sold the stupid thing for scrap in the mid-'70s, when I weighed it and reckoned it was worth about ?1700. (in '70s money!!!!)

I reckon I'd be lucky to get ?150-200 now.

[Sue C]

Sue scroll down    http://www.bexfield.co.uk/sdxpot.htm  and you have a whole service 

Also Chester is a lot more sought after.

[chopin-liszt]

 

Did you mean me, Sue? For my Nathan & Ridley teaservice? That's quite a fancy lidded sugar thingy, my tea service is quite rococco style, but not as unusual as that, I don't think, and thankfully, my cartouches are not engraved, but still blank.

Perhaps it might be worth something, after all  - it is mostly the maker and the place it's made that makes silver worth anything, isn't it? - not the actual intrinsic attractiveness? There is a big dunt in the sugar bowl, but I'm sure a miniature panel beater could fix it, no probs.   

I don't "get" silver at all.  Christopher Dresser designs, yes, but shiny metal no. 

[Sue C]

Yes Sue, i meant you 
These days it is normally the maker and where the peice was made that is desirable, so chester hall mark and Nathan & Ridley are probably worth quite a bit.

It might be worth you while getting them valued.

[josordoni]

Send a pic to Daniel Bexfield, and see if he might make you an offer... his prices are high as he is in a very posh area, so his offers might also be better than average.

[M]

Chester silver fetches very.very good prices in..... Chester.
Cheshire has always been an extremely affluent county, and as the assay office has been long closed, this remains one of the strongest selling areas for Chester marks, despite not having any major league silversmiths.
Regards,
Marcus
PS, I think he is still there, but Peter Boughton is the silver curator, so it might be worth giving him a call or dropping a line, for further info on the silversmiths??

[chopin-liszt]

 

Thanks ever so much, everybody!

There's a little voice in the back of my head saying something about...more glass, more glass, more glass......

[Anne]

Fingers crossed for a good result Sue.