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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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