A Fine and Rare English Silver Mounted ‘Hanger’

Indistinct silver hallmarks for 1691
Silver, gilt, steel, agate
England
Late 17th century

Size: 58cm long - 22¾ ins long

Provenance:
Ex Private English collection, Mrs How, renowned silver dealer
Ex Private collection

cf:
The ’T’ and ‘dagger’ mark was granted to Gyles Lyndesey of the London Cutlers
Company on 6 February 1677. See: Keith Hinde and John Herbert, ‘The Collections of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers of London’, Part One: ‘London-Made Knives and Their Marks’, New Generation Publishing, London, 2005, p.52

The curved ‘saw-back’ blade double edged at the point, depicting faintly engraved foliage and deeply struck with a profile head mark on both sides of the forte, one side with the copper-filled mark of Gyles Lyndesey, a ‘dagger’ over ’T’. The hilt is finely engraved with foliage comprising a short rear quill with rounded terminal cast and chased with a horseman against a stippled ground, shell side-guard within a loop linked to the knuckle-guard, the former with a profile bust of a Roman emperor. The ‘eared’ agate grip (chip to one ear) of a tapering circular section. The guard retaining the majority of the original gilding.