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 VICTORIAN RETRACTABLE GLOVES HOOK BY MORDAN SAMPSON, STERLING SILVER

 

 

A very scarce Victorian novelty silver, propeling or retractable Button/Gloves Hook  by SAMPSON MORDAN & Co made in Sterling Siver with guilloché texture. Turning mechanism that ejects the hook, similar to the mechanism on their worldwide famous mechanical pencils. Attached suspension ring, perfect for attaching it to a Victorian or Edwardian Chatelaine.

This is a distinguished tiny mechanical gadget used by Victorian fashionist ladies or gentlemans.

 

 WEIGHT : 8.85gr

MEASURES: length (retracted and including its hanging ring): 59mm.

ESTIMATED AGE: circa 1880

GENERAL CONDITION: very good general condition, please refer to the pictures. Don't hesitate to contact us for any question.

 

Additional Info:

Mordan’s shrewd business sense and deep-rooted dedication to his philosophy – ‘make something of quality and people will buy it’ – that drove him to create hundreds of superb examples of these slide/propelling pencils. Such was the workmanship, the pencils became one of the most fashionable accessories of the 19th century, cementing Mordan’s legacy.

Mordan’s company created pencils in every form imaginable, from animals to Egyptian artefacts, sporting accessories and even human figures. As one might expect, it is these whimsical forms that are among the most collectable today.

‘The most expensive Mordan pencils are the novelty or figural examples produced in the latter part of the 19th century,’ says David Buck of Steppes Hill Farm Antiques. ‘Mordan described them as “fancy pencils”. They’re usually of good quality cast construction and the prices for rare individual examples have exceeded £3,000.’

4407 VICTORIAN RETRACTABLE GLOVES HOOK BY MORDAN SAMPSON, STERLING SILVER

€179.00Precio
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