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GUEST: This is a first-place
trophy from the Canton
Sailing Regatta in 1859.

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APPRAISER: It's a wonderful
example of what we would call
China trade silver. If you can

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imagine the maritime trade as
it would sail to Canton, once
it arrived there, it was there

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for three months, six months.
All those sailors needed things
to do. So they golfed, they

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played polo, they played
soccer, and they sailed.
You said 1859, I see 1850.

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APPRAISER: That's very, very
early for this sort of piece.
Most of these were made for

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the Chinese market. What
you would do is, you'd
go into your Chinese
retailer, the silversmith,

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and you'd pick out what you
wanted, and then you would have
it engraved for that particular

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occasion. Well, they happened
to pick out a Chinese silver
cup that was made for the

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Western market. Many of the
ones made for the Chinese market
have these embossed dragons

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and figures and villages
all over them that represent
Chinese life. This has more the

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acanthus leaves that you would
find in a nice piece of English
silver. Now, underneath here,

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we have the hallmark that looks
English, but it's really a
pseudo-English hallmark. And

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in the middle of that,
you see the three letters
that distinguish this
as having been made

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by Khe Cheong, a very prominent
silversmith in the mid-part
of the 19th century for China.

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In a well-advertised auction,
this should sell somewhere in
the range of between $5,000

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and $8,000.

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GUEST: Pretty good.

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APPRAISER: I think it's great.