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DESCRIPTION | Superb antique English Georgian solid sterling silver wine funnel with thread decorated top rims, cast shell tang, original silver strainer section and muslin ring. Full set of hallmarks to main body and matching partial hallmarks to strainer and ring showing that the pieces have always been together. Pretty little crest, repeated on the strainer, is of a vertical lion's gamb (gamb = late Latin thence old French for animal's leg). |
SILVERSMITH | William Fell |
DATE or HALLMARK | 1818 |
ASSAY OFFICE | London |
WEIGHT in GRAMS | 126 |
HEIGHT | 5 ½", 140mm |
SILVER STANDARD | ·925 sterling silver |
CONDITION | excellent |
SOLD |
Price £548 |
item number m7799 |
Available Wine Funnels |
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