Victorian Sterling Silver Bosun's Whistle with Royal Provenance
A Victorian sterling silver bosun's whistle, 1863 Birmingham, with maker's marks for Hilliard & Thomason, of tubular shape with a Crown and anchor each side of the whistle barrel and bright cut, presented to T. Dorgan by Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne (Queen Victoria's fourth daughter and her husband) on the 25th November 1878, the date of the Marquis's inauguration as the fourth Governor General of Canada and the day the couple disembarked their ship 'Sarmatian' in Halifax Nova Scotia. Silver weight 20gr length 5.31 in.
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- Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 – 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910. - Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
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- whistles 65
