Fine Silver - 27th April 2016

Lot 320

An Arts & Crafts silver mounted commemorative trowel and mounted wooden mallet

Estimate £300 - £400

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Description

An Arts & Crafts silver mounted commemorative trowel and mounted wooden mallet,

unmarked,

turned wooden handles, with swirled alternating bands of carved foliate and wheatsheaf decoration, the mallet with an inset medallion in the base, both with engraved presentation inscriptions to T. Fenwick Harrison for the laying of the foundation stone of the new Engineering laboratories University of Liverpool, 1910, length of trowel 23.5cm, length of mallet 18cm. (2)