An early 19th-Century sick-syphon,

Elisabeth Bennion states that Michael Clayton, the author of Collector's Dictionary of Silver and Gold, believes sick-syphons generally originate from America, which would explain the one offered's lack of hallmarks. Bennion, however, disagrees with this.

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