Past Auctions

Hart & Smith rare set of six silver cups, each with molded top over beaded band on molded base, having belonged to Naval Captain Anthony Walke and monogrammed ASW, Baltimore, MD circa 1815. Anthony Walke b. September 13, 1783 & d. March 19, 1865. Walke was the son of William and Mary Thoroughgood Calvert Walke. Anthony was married to Susan H. Carmichael, of Princess Anne County. Anthony was educated at Yale College with John C. Calhoun, James Fenimore Cooper the novelist, Judge William Jay son of Chief Justice John Jay, and with the scholarly poet, Hillhouse of New Haven. Walke was elected a member of the Virginia Legislature. While a member of the legislature, Walke was selected as the agent of the United States Government, to deliver to the Dey of Algiers the tribute for the privilege of trading in the Mediterranean ports. During the War of 1812 he was attached to a mounted patrol organized for the purpose of resisting the movements of the enemy, and on one occasion participated in the capture of a number of officers and sailors who had come ashore on a foraging expedition from the British fleet, then lying in Hampton Roads. It was said of him by the editor of the Ohio State Journal, he was in truth a gentleman of the old school, polite and respectful to all, and maintaining through life a character for the faithful discharge of all his duties, whether regarded as a public man, a private citizen, or a Christian.

Estimate: $3000 - $5000