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DESCRIPTION | Highest quality antique English Georgian solid sterling silver orange or lemon strainer with stylised petal form piercing, discreet frontal crest engraving, thread decorated suspension clip and a magnificent cast handle. The detail and quality of this cast silver handle is outstanding. Probably the last of this type as the fashion for simpler and cheaper loop handles was already gaining popularity. To learn more about orange/lemon/punch strainers see the fabulous new book on the subject 'Silver Lemon Strainers 1686-1846' by Michael Adams. |
SILVERSMITH | Thomas Daniell. In one of Thomas's advertising flyers of the time for his Foster Lane premises he claims 'Twenty Thousand Ounces of every species of Silver Goods ... finished in the highest elegance of patterns, and peculiarly excellent workmanship and embellishments from the best and latest designs always on hand'. What would I give now to spend an afternoon in that shop? |
DATE or HALLMARK | 1779 |
ASSAY OFFICE | London |
WEIGHT in GRAMS | 137 |
WIDTH inc. handle | 7 ¼", 183mm |
SILVER STANDARD | ·925 sterling silver |
CONDITION | superb, no signs of use, magnificent, certainly the finest available to mankind today. |
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SOLD |
Price £448 |
item number m8058 |
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