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A Rare And Unusual English Silver-Gilt Mounted HangerIndistinct London Silver Hallmarks For 1691
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,240 inc. premium
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Indistinct London Silver Hallmarks For 1691
Indistinct London Silver Hallmarks For 1691
With curved saw-back blade double-edged at the point, faintly engraved with foliage and deeply struck with a profile head mark on both sides of the forte, one side with the copper-filled mark of Gyles Lyndesey, a dagger over 'T', hilt finely engraved with foliage comprising short rear quillon with rounded terminal cast and chased with a horseman against a stippled ground, shell side-guard within a loop linked to the knuckle-guard, the former with profile bust of a Roman emperor and foliage against a partly stippled ground, the latter with central bust en suite and with dolphin terminal at the top, its tail secured by a tube on the flat foliate engraved pommel plate (border incomplete) with button finial, eared agate grip (one ear chipped) of tapering circular section with deep basal ferrule surmounted by a pierced and engraved crest and finely engraved with strawberry foliage, and retaining most of its original gilding
45.5 cm. blade
45.5 cm. blade
Footnotes
The 'T' and dagger mark was granted to Gyles Lyndesey of the London Cutlers' Company on 6 February 1677. See Keith Hinde and John Herbert, The Collections of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers of London, Part One, London-Made Knives And Their Marks, 2005, p. 52








