THE COX COLLECTION. NZ MADE JEWELLERY & MORE
Wednesday, 20 - Wednesday, 27 April 2022
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Current Bid $240 (32 bids, reserve met)
This lot is now closed 27 Apr 6:04 PM (NZST)
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Lot Details
Observation and collecting where always rooted in Gabby Cox’s being, when growing up the beauty and variety of indigenous flora and fauna trained her eye. In later years she was a passionate renowned collector and occasional exhibitor of colonial period stoneware bottles. In 1995 Te Papa (The Museum of New Zealand) published the informative and exhaustively illustrated book Gold & Silversmithing in Nineteenth & Twentieth Century New Zealand by Winsome Shepherd. Shepherd’s unmatched book triggered Gabby’s passions to branch out again, this time on a mission of study and collecting early New Zealand jewellery, medals and silver. Fascinated by the breadth of colonial manufacturers’ creations, her collecting focused on the aspect of gaining examples of the many individual makers, whilst pursuing items of quality and artistic value. This culminated in what we believe to be one of the best private collections of such pieces. Now, some time on Gabby has decided the responsibility of ownership should not remain with her and has privileged Cordy’s with presenting it for sale by auction
