This vintage gents umbrella has a maple crook handle with a silver collar engraved with the company name:
'Robert Walters Associates'
The collar is stamped with a maker's mark:
'By Appointment
To HM Queen Elizabeth
The Queen Mother
Umbrella Makers
Swaine Adeney Brigg & Sons Limited'
'Brigg London was one of the UK’s top walking stick and umbrella manufacturers until February 1943, when Swaine & Adeney on Piccadilly and Thomas Brigg & Sons, round the corner at 23 St James's Street decided to join forces. From 1943 until 1990 the company traded as Swaine, Adeney, Brigg & Sons Ltd'
Cane shaft & metal frame that holds a black nylon canopy.
The fixings are stamped with the frame maker's name:
'Fox Frames
Sheffield'
‘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'.’
There is a label to the canopy:
'100% Nylon
Made in England'
The name of the company is also printed on the canopy:
'Robert Walters Associates'
The shaft ends in an original metal ferrule.
A smart & practical umbrella, suitable for use or a collector.
Measurements:
Length - 94cm
Diameter of handle - 14cm
Diameter of shaft - 1.6cm
Diameter of canopy - 114cm
Weight - 717g
Very good condition with some use marks consistent with age. 3 pin holes to canopy.
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SKU: G177069668654
£220.00Price
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