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Lot 82

An English Silver-Mounted Hanger
London Silver Hallmarks For 1691, Maker's Mark HH Conjoined

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £828.75 inc. premium

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An English Silver-Mounted Hanger
London Silver Hallmarks For 1691, Maker's Mark HH Conjoined

With slightly curved blade double-edged over nearly half its length to the point, the forte on both sides deeply struck with a King's head mark, hilt comprising recurved quillons each cast and chased in the round with monster's head terminal, plain collar, pommel-cap cast and chased with two portrait busts of Roman emperors, two cherub's masks and foliage, all against a punched ground, and natural buckhorn grip, in original partly tooled brown leather scabbard with silver locket and chape
43.8 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a very similar example with maker's mark of Richard Fuller see Leslie Southwick, London Silver-hilted Swords..., 2001, p. 277, pl. 18

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