This large red umbrella features an oak handle with a silver band.
The band features a 'by royal appointment' crest & maker's mark:
'By Appointment
To HM Queen Elizabeth
The Queen Mother
Umbrella Makers
Swaine Adeney Brigg
Limited'
For the renowned umbrella & stick makers:
'Swaine London'
'Swaine London, also known as Swaine Adeney Brigg, perfected its sophisticated and traditional designs, rendering them as a world-class British manufacturer of the highest quality whips and sticks'
The band is also engraved with the name & logo of a famous bank:
'Coutts''Coutts & Co. is a British private bank and wealth manager headquartered in London, England.
Founded in 1692, it is the eighth oldest bank in the world. Today, Coutts forms part of NatWest Group's wealth management division. In 2021, Coutts achieved B-Corp status, becoming only the third UK bank to achieve the certification.'
There is a metal shaft with metal fixings and spokes.
One of the spokes features a maker's mark:
'Fox Frames
Sheffield UK'
For the renowned makers of umbrellas:
'Fox Umbrellas Ltd.'
‘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 frame holds a dark red nylon canopy, also bearing the Coutts logo & name.
The metal shaft ends in the original metal ferrule.
An elegant & attractive umbrella perfect for use or a collector.
Measurements:
Length - 102cm
Diameter of the handle - 3.6cm
Diameter of the shaft - 1.7cm
Diameter of the canopy - 112cm
Weight - 739g
Very good condition with an intact canopy.
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