1- Colorless blown lead glass goblet; double ogee-shaped bowl joined by baluster-shaped knop to pedestal foot with pontil mark; bowl wheel engraved with eagle over American shield on one side with inscription "SUCCESS TO REPEAL 1933" on the other. Made in England on base. 4"x4"x5 1/4". 2- Colorless blown lead glass goblet; chalice shaped bowl joined by baluster-shaped knop to pedestal foot with pontil mark; bowl wheel engraved with hops and grapes with inscription "SUCCESS TO REPEAL 1933" in shield medallion. Made in England on base. 4"x4"x5". Weight combined 1 pd 3 oz. PROVENANCE: A Charleston SC Private Estate. Arthur Stannard Vernay founded the antiques business that bore his name. He was born Arthur Stannard Avant in April 1877 in Weymouth, England, the son of Louisa Stannard and Thomas Crabb Avant. He adopted Vernay as his surname around 1903-1904, when he came to the United States. He arrived in New York City as a young man with very little money. After working at A.J. Crawford’s, a furniture and furnishing store, Vernay began to deal in antiques, and opened his own shop in 1906 on 45th Street, just off Fifth Avenue. He sold English antiques almost exclusively. In addition to selling antiques, Vernay’s firm offered restoration and interior design services, including the installation of period paneled rooms. This was an important part of the business, employing up to forty people. Mr. Vernay’s first important client was Mrs. Morton Plant. He also worked with attorney Francis P. Garvan and financier James Cox Brady. Vernay, Inc. offered interior work until the late 1960s. At various times, the firm had branches in London and Boston, and a summer shop in Newport, Rhode Island. For a brief while, it had a reproduction arm called The House of Philip Oriel, but it went out of business as a result of the Great Depression. Henry Francis du Pont was a good customer of Vernay.

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