This antique ladies' umbrella has a white quartz handle with a gold and red Basse-taille enamel collar. There is an ornate monogram beneath the translucent enamel:
'BD'

There is a palm wood shaft & metal frame that holds a navy nylon canopy with a decorative band around the edge.

The metal fixings are stamped with the maker's name:
'Brigg & Sons
London 
& 
Paris' 
For the renowned stick & umbrella makers:
'Brigg London'
'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'

One of the metal spokes is stamped:
'Paragon S. Fox & Co. Limited'
For the renowned umbrella frame makers:
'Samuel Fox & Co'
‘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 an original metal ferrule.

A beautiful & practical umbrella, suitable for use or a collector.

Measurements:
Length - 96cm
Diameter of handle - 2.3cm
Diameter of shaft - 1.1cm
Diameter of canopy - 87cm
Weight - 366g
 
Very good condition.
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