Page 177 - Chinese SIlver By Adrien Von Ferscht

Whether C.J.Company was a silversmith enamoured with showmanship, time and the research will tell. The
cocktail set and tray [below] is really quite lavish compared most cocktail sets of the time. This was produced
in a city that was totally captured by the jazz age, the cocktail hour and the lifestyle that developed. The
fascinating end-story of this set is that it somehow found its way to Hollywood where it became part of a silver
collection of a Hollywood movie star of the 1940’s.

This jewellery case with lock and
silk lining also made the journey to
Hollywood. C.J. Company would
have approved.

Images courtesy of Bonhams, New
York; Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh/
Glasgow, UK; Supershrink’s
Storehouse of Silver

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