Hardstone and Enamel Dress Cane

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By Kimball Sterling

May 24, 2025

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  Ca. 1910 Fashioned in a vertically stretched and tapering shape, the handle consists of a green aventurine top and a matched, engine-turned, and enameled plinth, beautifully adorned by silver rings and collars. The hard stone part shows off the characteristic green color and glimmering structure. It comes with a round and flat silver cap hand-engraved with large and flowery “HS” initials. It attaches to a ring and a pair of gracefully hanging garlands, all finely chased with laurel leaves. Another slender silver multiple-ring collar centered by a row of trailing dots ensures a beautiful joint to the plinth underneath, engine turned with a repeating vertical pattern accented by tiny moon-like disks, and transparent eggshell white enameled. The latter extends in a third and matching silver collar embellished with three identical and applied urn-like pedestals crowned with a bloom and ends with a plain silver band. The band itself, wider and plain, is struck with an “A” for Vienna, followed by the “Hexagonal Minerva Head” for Austrian first-rate silver, followed by a “G.A.S.” for Georg Adam Scheid, and a “900” tailed by a “Crescent and Crown” German hallmark for high-grade silver. The same hallmarks repeat on the upper collar with a laurel leaf. Tilting towards the contemporary Fabergé knob profiles in the Louis XVI taste, this handle is from the output of the legendary Viennese manufacturer, widely regarded as the ever-most successful enameller. The best expression of Austrian vivacity, this handle epitomizes the restrained “Neat Style” of the Viennese lapidary artist, whose simplicity belies the exceptional quality of materials and construction. It comes with a richly hued, dense, and closed-pored rosewood shaft with a moiré-like silky shine and a matched horn ferrule. The impact of Fabergé in Paris at the Exposition Internationale Universelle in 1900 proved decisive, and the Russian style provoked great fascination. That brought hard stone knobs and handles into fashion, with Paris and Vienna as centers of manufacturing. However, the jewelers and craftsmen who set out to copy it could not, try as they might, shed all the accents of their own culture entirely. H. 3” x ¾”, O.L. 38 ¾” $700-$900 Scheid Georg Adam completed a commercial apprenticeship until 1853 and subsequently worked in Pforzheim and Stuttgart. In 1858, he went to Vienna and worked there in the workshop of his future father-in-law, the silverware producer and jeweler Michael Markowitsch. Together, they founded the OHG Markowitsch & Scheid in 1862. 20 years later, he left the thriving company and founded, in 1882, under his name, a jewelry factory and, in 1884, also the Georg Adam Scheid 'sche Affinerie, from which later the Ögussa emerged. In 1911, he retired. His jewelry works bear the marks "G.A.S. " or "S.G.A. " and often the “Crescent and Crown” German hallmark.
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