This antique umbrella has an ornate repousse Fritz handle hallmarked for:
'London 1889'
There is a maker's mark:
'_.H.I.B.'

Ebonized cane shaft & metal frame that holds a black silk canopy. One of the spokes is stamped with the frame maker's name:
'Paragon
S. Fox & Co. Limited'
‘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 shaft ends in a cane section with an original metal ferrule. 

A beautiful top-quality umbrella, suitable for a collector.

Measurements:
Length - 92cm
Diameter of handle - 9.8cm
Diameter of shaft below handle - 1.2cm
Diameter of canopy - 94cm
Weight - 406g
 
Very good condition with some use marks consistent with age. Some thinning to canopy & rubbing to hallmarks.
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