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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
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