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Reference: S1890
Period: Victorian
Year: 1870
Silversmith: Chawner & Co
Place: London
Price: $ 640.00
Weight: 285 grams
Dimensions: 33.5 cm
Condition: Excellent, very small dent to bowl.
Description: A rare Victorian silver Old English Military Thread and Shell pattern soup ladle, of exceptional weight and quality. The pattern has the regular Thread and Shell pattern, double struck (on both sides), but with scrolls instead of shoulders, as with all Military variants (Pickford, Silver Flatware, page 117). The ladle has an interesting engraved family crest, a collared lion between 2 horns. The hallmarks are very clear, including makers mark GA (George Adams, who took over the Chawner business in 1840), and also includes 2 journeyman's marks S and N (the silversmiths who made the ladle in the Chawner & Co workshop). Ian Pickford, in the book Silver Flatware, describes Old English Military Thread and Shell as "a rare pattern, illustrated in the Chawner & Co. Pattern book(appendix pg 218). Any services and pieces are rare" - page 107. Chawner & Co were the most important firm of silver spoon manufacturers in Victorian England (John Culme, Directory of Gold & Silversmiths, page 82).
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Military shell pattern silver soup ladle - old english military thread and shell
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Old english military thread and shell pattern
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Engraved family crest - lion between horns
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military shell - back of ladle
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Military thread and shell - back of silver soup ladle
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George Adams Chawner & Co silver hallmarks, journeyman marks
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Old english military thread and shell pattern - scale
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Military shell pattern - thread edge scrolls
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