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An English Silver-Mounted Hanger
Retailed By Jeffries, Strand, London Silver Hallmarks For 1743, Maker's Mark LB(?)

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £765 inc. premium

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An English Silver-Mounted Hanger
Retailed By Jeffries, Strand, London Silver Hallmarks For 1743, Maker's Mark LB(?)

With curved brightly burnished fullered blade double-edged towards the point and with a narrow fuller along the back on each side, hilt cast and chased with gadrooning and comprising downbent shell-guard, lobed rear quillon, knuckle-guard, and chased pommel-cap with button, and rounded mottled cowhorn grips, in original brown leather-covered scabbard tooled with line ornament, silver locket pricked with retailer's details on one side, chape chased with a shell design on both sides, belt hook en suite with the hilt, and in fine condition
61.7 cm. blade

Footnotes

The retailer is probably Nathaniel 1 Jefferys listed as 'Cutler Strand' in 1749. For more information see Leslie Southwick, London Silver-hilted Swords..., 2001, pp. 147-148

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