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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  December Art & Antique Auction
• Sale Date:
  04 Dec 2012 ~ 9am (NZ time) (Lots 1 - 349)
  04 Dec 2012 ~ 5pm (NZ time) (Lots 350 - 878)
• Lot #:
  494
• Lot Description:
  A rare Reuben Watts silver and Maori portrait carved serpentine brooch
  the rectangular panel carved with portrait of a Maori man, in raised rub-over mount, the serpentine shaped frame with hand beaten effect and cut-out flared detail, embossed facsimile maker’s signature, ‘STERLING’ and engraved owner’s initials within a diamond ‘AJB’ to reverse. 50 x 36. In original green velvet lined box with original maker’s label ‘Reuben Watts General Silversmith & Jewellery Work 41 & 42 Security Building, Queen Street, Auckland’.
• Notes:
  Note: See ‘Gold & Silversmithing in Nineteenth & Twentieth Century N.Z.’ by Winsome Shepherd, 1995, page 142 for illustration of a very similar example held in the Auckland Museum collection.
• Estimate:
  NZ$3,750 - 3,750
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Jewellery

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