A VAUXHALL BLUE AND WHITE HANDLE

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A VAUXHALL BLUE AND WHITE HANDLE
Circa 1758, Nicholas Crisp's factory

Of faceted pistol form, painted in a blurred bright-blue with pendant lambrequins from a flowerhead and a cell-pattern border, the blade stamped Parker
4 1/2in. (11.5cm.) long

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Lot Essay

Apparently one of only two known, the other was sold by Christie's Scotland on 21 April 1988, lot 32

The cutler's mark is that of Widow Parker, Peacroft, Sheffield

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