This antique umbrella features a bovine horn crook handle with a hand-carved end in the shape of a greyhound-type dog's head with original sharp glass eyes. It is furnished with a gold-plated collar.

The collar is vacant & suitable for engraving.

There is a cord wrist strap with a decorative ball & tassel end.
 
Cane shaft & metal frame that holds a black nylon canopy. One of the spokes is stamped with the frame maker's name:
'Paragon 
S. Fox & Co. Ltd
Made in England'
‘It was in 1848 that Samuel Fox, a wire drawer by trade, started to make solid steel ribs in Stocksbridge, near Sheffield.
Fox was a master wire drawer and it was this skill in the production of fine quality wire that he turned to the production of umbrella ribs.
Samuel Fox continued improving and developing his ribs over the next few years when his son William Henry Fox joined the company around 1913 and around this time adopted the trademark 'Paragon'.’

The metal fixings are also stamped with the umbrella maker's name:
'Sangsters Park'
'As early as 1786, one Samuel Sangster is mentioned as a cane merchant of Fleet Street. Whether he already occupied number 94 is not certain, but that particular address is mentioned as being in the family at least since 1802. Samuel’s cane shop developed into an umbrella and cane shop when his two sons, William and John, took over the shop. William Sangster wrote a celebrated book titled 'Umbrellas and Their History', which is still in print today.'

The shaft ends in an original metal ferrule.

A stylish umbrella, suitable for a dog lover or for use.

Measurements:
Length - 95.5cm
Diameter of handle - 9.5cm
Diameter of shaft - 1.4cm 
Diameter of canopy - 100cm
Weight - 431g
 
Very good condition with an intact canopy & light use marks to shaft.
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