Very Rare GILBERT MARKS Silver MATCH BOX HOLDER, London 1898 Arts & Crafts GM

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Very Rare GILBERT MARKS Silver MATCH BOX HOLDER, London 1898 Arts & Crafts GM:
$1114.32

VeryRare GILBERT MARKS Silver MATCH BOX HOLDER, London 1898 Arts & Crafts GM

DESCRIPTION: Oblong with floralchased top

HALLMARKS:London 1898 by Gilbert Marks (GM)

MEASUREMENTS: 7.7cm x 5cm x 2.7cm; 66 grams

This is arare piece ofsilver by one of the most sought after of all English silversmiths.

This beautifully decoratedhand-madesilver match box holderbears the typical floral chasing ofGilbert Marks - all his pieces are unique but the quality of chasing remainshis trademark and easily identifies his work.This match box holder isvery competitively priced for a piece of work by this highly sought aftersilversmith.

Thismatch boxbearshis dated engraved signature and a clear set of hallmarks with his distinctive\"GM\" makers mark. The match box holder is in the usual form of fouropen sides to open the box and to strike the matches on thesandpaper.Thecondition is excellent and the original patina isretained.BIOGRAPHY: Gilbert Leigh Marks(1861-1905) was one of the first silversmiths to consciously renounceindustrial manufacture in favour of making by hand. Although he seems to havehad little to do with the Arts and Crafts movement he shared many of itsideals. The importance of his work lies in the outstanding quality of itschasing. In a short career cut short by ill health, he is known to have onlyproduced only between 700 and 800 pieces - most of them in silver. His earlierpieces were almost entirely dedicated to the perfection of chasing floralmotifs.

\"The man who buys thestock plate is buying useful articles but not unique ones, whereas he whocommissions an original work upon which the craftsman has bestowed his bestpersonal labour is buying a work of art, the money value of which increases withan increase of reputation that may come to the artist\". (Gilbert LeighMarks speaking in an interview with The London Art Journal in 1898).

See `The Directory ofGold & Silversmiths, Jewellers & Allied Traders, 1838-1914` vol. I, byJohn Culme pages 312-13 for more information.

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