Description:
Six Sterling Silver Pepper Shakers and Five Salt Cellars, Gardner, Massachusetts, 20th century, Frank Smith Silver Co., maker, J.E. Caldwell & Co., retailer, each monogrammed "DNB" and decorated with C-scrolls and foliate arabesques, with engraved "From/FB/1910" to underside, cellar lg. 3 1/2, pepper ht. 5 1/4 in., approx. 37.4 troy oz. total.
Estimate $300-500
Two pepper shakers with small dents. Pepper shaker finial inserts with scattered dents to interior rim (not visible from outside). Salt cellars with minor pinprick dents to interior/underside. Scattered with minor areas of corrosion.
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