CIRCA 1700

Details

An English Silver-Mounted Agate Hanger Handle
Circa 1700
Comprising tapering agate grip (cracked and repaired) of oval section, the top bifurcated and fitted with a flat silver cap with a deeply engrailed edge (slight damage) supporting between its shoulders a silver blackamoor's head with a tube below the chin into which the finial of a knuckle-guard fitted, at the bottom a corresponding silver ferrule with engrailed upper edge and a narrow moulding at its base
5in. (12.7cm.)

Literature

H.L. Blackmore, 'The blackamoor swords', Royal Armouries Year Book, vol. 3, 1998, p. 75, figs. 16 & 17

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Lot Essay

This belongs to a rare group of English hangers discussed ibid., pp. 75-6, of which only three other examples have been recorded, one with brass mounts. Two bear the London hallmark and date letters for respectively 1696 and 1702, and a third the mark of the London hilt-maker Thomas Vicaridge of New Street, London (recorded 1682-1716)

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