In The Book of Wine Antiques (1986), Robin Butler and Gillian Walking discuss Wine syphons:
"A piece of apparatus which might appeal particularly to readers with a mechanical bent is the wine syphon. These strange looking objects were produced from about 1750 until the early years of the nineteenth century and provided an alternative method of decanting to the wine funnel. There are two varieties both comprising a U-shaped tube. One has a pump, not unlike a diminutive version of a bicycle pump, while the other relies on oral suction to instigate the flow of wine from the bottle to the decanter. Both varieties are normally fitted with a tap so that as soon as the dregs and sediment are reached the procedure may be quickly halted. Although other makers are know to have produced them, a substantial percentage of the small number that survive were made by the firm Phipps and Robinson during the closing years of the eighteenth century. Few have more than minimal decoration consisting of applied mouldings to strengthen the various joints, though one or two later later examples are known with bright-cut decoration on the bracket strengthening the principal bend."
SYPH219 - $4500
AMERICAN SILVER WINE SYPHON. RETAILER'S MARK OF MARQUAND AND CO. c. 1810.
SYPH227 - $4500
ENGLISH SILVER WINE SYPHON. MAKER'S MARK: "TH" ACORN BETWEEN. CROWN ABOVE. UNIDENTIFIED, LONDON, MID-18th C?
SYPH228 - $4500
DUTCH SILVER WINE SYPHON. AMSTERDAM, 1826. MAKER'S MARK "HI", BIRD ABOVE, STAR BELOW.
SYPH236 - $2100
AN AMERICAN SILVER WINE SYPHON, c. 1820 WITH PISTON PUMP AND RING HANDLE. MONOGRAM "JHMC". UNMARKED.
SYPH237 - $2500
A GEORGE III SILVER WINE SYPHON, UNMARKED
2nd HALF 18thC OF LOOPED FORM WITH OCTAGONAL ARCH & PIPETTE ON SIDE.
SYPH274 - $4200
A SILVER WINE SYPHON BY FREDERICK MARQUAND, NY, c.1830. OF TYPICAL FORM, MOUNTED WITH A CYLINDRICAL PUMP WITH IVORY KNOB, THE TAP WITH SCALLOPED HANDLE, MARKED ON TAP HANDLE.
SYPH353 - $2500
SILVER WINE SYPHON IN CURVING TUBE FORM w/SILVER STRAW TO START FLOW.
ENGRAVED: "CARMICHAEL". PROBABLY AMERICAN, c. 1820.
SYPH434 - $2750
AMERICAN SILVER SIPHON, PROBABLY FROM NYC AROUND 1790-1810. UNMARKED.
ORIGINAL GASKETS MAY BE LEATHER AND ARE INTACT. 15 1/8 " by 4 1/2 AND TUBE 3/4'.
All Syphons subject to prior sale.
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