
Lot 75
An English Silver-Mounted HangerRetailed By Jeffries, Strand, London Silver Hallmarks For 1743, Maker's Mark LB(?)
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold 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(?)
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
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