ANTIQUE SAMUEL SMITH SOLID SILVER CHATELAINE - HALLMARKED 1896
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NO RESERVEDelivery Before Christmas Guaranteed Next Day Special Delivery A CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR A COLLECTOR or AN INVESTMENT, AS THIS ITEM WILL INCREASE IN VALUE YEAR-ON-YEAR This is a very rare Victorian hallmarked English solid silver chatelaine, having three chains from which are fixed a silver 3 pence piece, a child's thimble, a pocket watch winder in the form of a pixi on a toadstall and a tiny key.As today, daughters love to eminate their mothers and play-act being grown up. The lady of the house (mother) would have had a large silver or possibly gold, chatalaine, from which would have hung all the accoutrements she would have needed around the house - i.e. scissors, sewing instruments, memo, pencil etc. etc.. The child's chatelaine needed to be safe, so no sharp instruments could be placed on it - however, having her own tiny thimble would allow her to participate in sewing, under the guidance of mother or nanny. With the pixy pocket watch winder she could also offer to wind father's watch, which would have lived in his wastecoat pocket. The key was used to play unlocking the cupboards etc. and the coin was for emergencies !On the claw fastener is stamped the maker's mark of S.S in a squared oval cartouch - this was Samuel Smith's mark who was one of the finest silversmiths and jewelers of the day and had a prestegious
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