ARTHUR & BOND Silver Art Nouveau Monumental Presentation Tray

ARTHUR & BOND Yokohama

Art Nouveau Monumental Silver Presentation Tray
(1913 presentation to telephone pioneer F.R. Welles)

size : 30" x 23-1/2"

Japanese mark for "PURE SILVER"

Weight : approximately 216.7 troy ounces

Presentation to

F.R. Welles (American, born Athens, Pa, in 1854)

Pioneer Director of Western Electric Company of Chicago (1876), and later Bell Telephone, he introduced the telephone around the world.

This tray was presented upon his retirement, from Bell Telephone in France, in 1913.

# 08038 ........................................................................... $ 21,000.