17TH CENTURY

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AN IMPRESSIVE ENGLISH SILVER-MOUNTED LEATHER BOMBARD
17TH CENTURY
Of usual pear-shaped form with a silver top rim (unmarked) with a lambrequin motif along lower edge and a (possibly later) applied silver shield to front engraved with the crowned initials 'C S 1680', the handle has an attached silver mounted leather collar inscribed 'C III S'
18½in. (47cm.)
Sold with Oliver Baker's Black Jacks and Leather Bottells, printed for W.J.Fieldhouse by J.Burrow & Co, circa 1921 (2)

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Lot Essay

Provenance: Littlecote House Wiltshire, before the Sotheby's House Sale of 1985
The following is an extract from Oliver Baker's forward, in his book on the subject Black Jacks and Leather Bottells, Jan 1921, describing the first time he saw a black jack ''......the singular but delicious contour, the rich surface of the leather worn to a silky smoothness round the handle, came to me as a revelation, the thrill of which is even now quite unforgettable''.

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