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Auction: 284 - Bond, Share & Americana Mailbid & Internet Exclusive
Lot: 1400

Block Hall Silver Plate Serving Dishes Adriaen Block (1527-1627) was a Dutch explorer and trader who made four voyages to the American coast between present New Jersey and Massachusetts from 1611 to 1614. He followed Henry Hudson who came in 1609. Block´s maps of the period were significant, and one lasting element is his discovery of Block Island, which he named for himself. He came to Manhattan on his 1614 voyage, and while on land saw that his ship was burning. With help from friendly Indians, he built another ship, the "Onrust" the first ship to be built on Manhattan Island. The only extant model of this ship is now in the Museum of American Finance. The silver comes from the building at 23 South William Street which in former days had been a club, and an enthusiastic admirer of Block decided to call the building Block Hall. The silver was used in the club, and many of the pieces are stamped "BH" for this reason. In the five boxes of objects there are polished and wrapped in tissue: 2 sets of ice cream bowls; 3 medium bowls; 3 round trays; 4 large bowls with covers; 11 larger rectangular trays; 7 oblong trays 11" long; 2 oblong trays 13" long; 5 small bowls with covers; 2 condiment trays with holders for sauce or mustard at each end, total 42 items. There are also, un-polished: 4 round 6" dishes; 10 round 7" dishes; 5 round 9" dishes; 1 tea pot with cover; 1 ice cream dish 5" tall and 2 covers, total 23 items. This is a great lot for the imaginative retailer/trader, and a very small piece of old Downtown New York, from right behind the Goldman Sachs building on Broad Street. Estimate US$ 300-400

Estimate
$300 to $400