BY AUGUSTINE BOWLER

Details

A Charles I bronze mortar
By Augustine Bowler
The rim cast with the date 1638 and panels of foliate scrolls, the body cast with the initials W.K., flanking a shield with bell to sinister, above A.B., to dexter, his merchant's mark
6½in. (16.5cm.) diameter; 5½in. (14cm.) high;
and a bronze pestle, probably 17th century -- 10 5/8in. (27cm.) long (2)

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Lot Essay

Augustine Bowler, thought to be of Hull (fl.1626-48).

Bowler's merchant mark is illustrated, see Thomas North FSA, The Church Bells of the County and City of Lincoln, Leicester, Privately Printed for the Author by Samuel Clark, 1882, (fig.170).

From a bell at Kirton in Lindsey in 1629, the "merchant's" mark said to be a cypher of his christian name.

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