{"product_id":"silver-open-salt-barker-ellis-birmingham-1968","title":"Barker Ellis | Sterling Silver Open Salt | Birmingham | 1968","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarker Ellis | Sterling Silver Open Salt | Birmingham | 1968\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe salt has always sat a little apart on the table: small, necessary, and given a silver setting of its own.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Barker Ellis Silver Company was a Birmingham firm of silversmiths and manufacturers of table silver. This salt draws on the Georgian tradition of English table silver, with an oval body, gadrooned rim and decorative feet: forms and details that silversmiths continued to revisit well into the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe oval body swells gently outward and rises to a gadrooned rim, with shell motifs at each corner. It stands on four legs, each with a rounded knee and a paw foot. A fitted blue plastic liner sits inside. The silver interior is plain. The body is fully hallmarked for Barker Ellis, Birmingham, with the date letter T for 1968–69, and is also stamped “England”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood condition. There are three noticeable dings to the silver body. The liner is intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaker: Barker Ellis Silver Co.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHallmarks: Birmingham, date letter T (1968–69); also stamped “England”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForm: oval open salt with gadrooned rim, shell corners and four paw feet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaterial: sterling silver, with blue plastic liner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: length 7.2 cm; width 5.3 cm; height 3.5 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiner: length 5.6 cm; width 3.3 cm; height 2.3 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeight: silver 50 g; liner 10 g\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: good; three noticeable dings to the body\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuyer profile: collectors of English table silver, and anyone completing a set of salts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCollector Appeal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA clearly hallmarked Barker Ellis salt, its oval body raised on four paw feet beneath a decorative gadrooned rim. The fitted blue liner brings a vivid contrast to the silver, while the traditional form gives this mid-twentieth-century piece an affinity with much earlier English tableware.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome forms endure because each generation finds something worth keeping in them.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Dancing Faun Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40477473734856,"sku":"","price":2695.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0575\/3497\/2104\/files\/2021-06-30_11.56.52.png?v=1775920380","url":"https:\/\/dancingfaun.co.za\/products\/silver-open-salt-barker-ellis-birmingham-1968","provider":"The Dancing Faun Antiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}