Summer 2017

James L. Kochan Fine Art &Antiques A SILVER, PRESENTATION BOOKPLATE BY HENRY DAWKINS DEPICTING THE DECATUR FAMILY OF PHILADELPHIA, c. 1783 oval silver plate, 3 x 2 ⁷⁄₁₆ inches; the obverse with a portrait of the family of Captain Stephen Decatur in front of an open window with two ships in the distance, above an inscripƟon ‘To Mrs. Ann Decatur This Design is Inscribed by Her Ob. Humb. Servt. H. Dawkins’, the recto engraved in reverse as for a bookplate die and bearing the inscripƟon ‘The Arms of the Ancient Family of Decatur’