Saunders & Sheperd Ceramic Golf Ball Match Holder
Saunders & Sheperd Ceramic Golf Ball Match Holder
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Gutty Golf Ball Match Holder With Silver Rim.
A very nice early golf ball match holder in ceramic by Saunders & Sheperd. The mesh pattern ball is of the gutty (gutta percha) design and has a silver rim hallmarked Chester 1893, makers marks C.S, F.S. The base with Rd. No. 217405 and makers mark 'S and S'.
Cornelius Saunders & Frank Shepherd, Saunders & Sheperd was founded in London by Cornelius Desormeaux Sanders Sr and James Francis Hollings Sheperd (1869). They were a firm of manufacturing jewellers, initially specialising in mourning jewellery, but by 1880 they were advertising as "manufacturers in gold and standard silver of brooches, earrings, chains, swivels, lockets and necklets, pendants, solitaires, studs and charms. In 1899 they became Saunders & Sheperd Ltd. when Cornelius Saunders passed away and his three sons became directors. Later in 1916 they were Saunders, Sheperd & Co Ltd.
Dimensions:
1850-1899
1893
Silver & ceramic
England
Brendan Casey
Good original condition. Silver tarnished.
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 design and has a silver rim hallmarked Chester 1893, makers marks C.S, F.S. The base with Rd. No. 217405 and makers mark 'S and S'.Cornelius Saunders & Frank Shepherd, Saunders & Sheperd was founded in London by Cornelius Desormeaux Sanders Sr and James Francis Hollings Sheperd (1869). They were a firm of manufacturing jewellers, initially specialising in mourning jewellery, but by 1880 they were advertising as "manufacturers in gold and standard silver of brooches, earrings, chains, swivels, lockets and necklets, pendants, solitaires, studs and charms. In 1899 they became Saunders & Sheperd Ltd. when Cornelius Saunders passed away and his three sons became directors. Later in 1916 they were Saunders, Sheperd & Co Ltd.){kind=link}