Silver locomotives. A new centerpiece or to dress up the mantlepiece. Also a presentation railroad carriage in sterling silver running on its own track made in 1860 that I just found over on 1st Dibs.

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Parcel-gilt silver filigree locomotive form spice box with rose-gilt caps, the front with later Hebrew inscription with a dedication to a synagogue, presumably the one it was given to in Bucharest. 1850-1900. Not sure where it was made but it was given to a synagogue in Bucharest, Romania. From the style and ornamentation it looks like it was made in Eastern Europe, not Britain.  Judaica. Image @ 2024 Sothebys. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/the-halpern-judaica-collection-tradition-and-treasure-part-i/a-parcel-gilt-silver-filigree-locomotive-form
Silver gilt novelty steam engine pulling an open car. Victorian. English. marked London 1889. Alfred Benson and Henry Hugh Webb, makers. Image  © 2016 Seidenberg Antiques. Fair use license. https://www.seidenbergantiques.com/shop/objects-d-art/english/rare-victorian-silver-gilt-novelty-locomotive.html

Sterling silver locomotive Christmas tree ornament. ca. 1970s. American. Gorham, maker. © 1stDibs.com, Inc. 2024
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Sterling silver presentation railway carriage/centerpiece sitting on a bespoke oak wood presentation plinth, ornamented with a wooden railway track, realistically modelled with rails, fasteners, and railroad ties. The body of the carriage having a rectangular form with an elevated hallmarked gallery border, realistically modeled in the form of the carriage’s struts and graces. Either side of this gallery features an exceptional contemporary engraved coat of arms, one pertains to the Borough of Morpeth / County Northumberland and features the Latin motto Inter sylvas et flumina habitans – Living among woods and streams. The other coat of arms pertains to the Trevelyan family; it incorporates the crest of two arms in armor embowed, the hands supporting a bezant, thereon a parrot statant, all above the Old English motto Tyme tryeth troth – Time tests faith. The ends feature cast sterling silver buffer stops flanking the contemporary engraved initials ‘RW‘ to one end, and ‘JT‘ to the other. The surface of the body bears the contemporary engraved inscription Presented to Pauline Lady Trevelyan on the Occasion of opening the first section of the Wansbeck Railway, April 21 1862. The railway carriage is supported by a hallmarked sterling silver chassis framework, complete with the wheelset including functional wheels and ornamental axle boxes bearing the numeral ‘7’. 1860-1862. Made in London England by Edward and John Barnard. Maker’s marks: hallmarks to the chassis. Image © 1stDibs.com, Inc. 2024. Fair use license. https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/decorative-objects/desk-accessories/more-desk-accessories/antique-victorian-sterling-silver-presentation-railway-carriage-centerpiece/id-f_26282692/


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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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