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DESCRIPTION | Antique English Georgian solid sterling silver orange strainer with a stylised flower pierced bowl, leaf capped 'S' scroll handle and thread decorated bowl rim and suspension hook. The hook and handle combine to support the strainer securely to the top rim of your receiving vessel. Described as an orange or punch strainer rather than a lemon strainer because orange juice had been steadily replacing lemon juice as a major ingredient of punch since the 1750s. In 1773 the Birmingham assay office still called such items lemon strainers but from 1777 they were all termed orange strainers and an assay charge of one penny was made. |
SILVERSMITH | Samuel Herbert & Henry Bailey, both specialist piercers and both apprenticed to the great piercer Edward Aldridge (I) |
DATE or HALLMARK | 1760s, mark present but no longer complete, partnership existed from 1750 to late 1760s |
ASSAY OFFICE | London |
WEIGHT in GRAMS | 74 |
WIDTH inc. handle | 5 ½", 143mm |
SILVER STANDARD | ·925 sterling silver |
CONDITION | excellent |
SOLD |
Price £349 |
item number m7814 |
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