Object Description
A large model game bird with a long feathered tail and a removable head. Large size and excellent weight. The model pheasant is very realistic and has attractive chased detail.
Weight 1037g, 33.3 troy oz.
Height 23.6cm (head), 30.7cm (tail). Spread 44cm.
Maker Neresheimer, Hanau, Germany.
Date 1917.
Sterling silver 925/1000.
Marks. Stamped with German silver hallmarks on the wing. Both the head and wing have English silver hallmarks for Birmingham 1917 and the importer’s mark for Berthold Muller.
Maker: B Neresheimer & Sohnes
B. Neresheimer & Sohne, Hanau, Germany are probably the best well known of the Hanoi silversmith firms operating around the turn of the 19th century. The antique silver industry of Hanau specialised in excellent copies of old master silversmiths’ work, particularly Nuremberg pieces, double lady cups, old goblets, snuff boxes and so on. These copies were marked with fantasy marks, somewhat resembling old marks, which also harmonized with the style of the piece. For example, French rococo style reproductions are marked with French looking marks, German seventeenth century-inspired pieces got German-looking marks, and so on. These marks were usually in a style reminiscent of seventeenth and eighteenth century maker’s marks.
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