Building America: The Wolf Family Collection

Building America: The Wolf Family Collection

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An American Silver Cann, Jacob Jacobse Lansing, Albany, circa 1740

No reserve

Auction Closed

April 21, 08:50 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An American Silver Cann, Jacob Jacobse Lansing, Albany, circa 1740


cylindrical with tuck-in base and flared rim, the handle engraved C above PL., marked at right of handle below rim JL in rectangle, double struck.


4⅝ in. (11.7 cm.) high

9 oz. (279 g)

Sotheby's New York, January 31, 1985, lot 80
Wolf Family Collection No. 0786 (acquired from the above)
Charlotte Wilcoxen, "A Third Lansing Silversmith of Albany," The Magazine Antiques, October 1982, illus.