Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

Nine hatpins, by Charles Horner, comprising seven silver examples, the largest of Art Nouveau ball and sinuous ribbon design, hallmarked for Chester, 1908; three further ball and ribbon designs, of which two stamped ‘CH Sterling’, and the third (smallest) hallmarked for Chester, 1907; an enamel and paste set butterfly example, hallmarked for Chester, 1908, a treble clef example, stamped ‘CH Sterling’, a purple paste thistle set example, stamped ‘CH Sterling’; a yellow paste single stone claw set example hallmarked for Chester, 1903 and a rolled gold knot example with Charles Horner monogram mark, all the hatpins with spherical findings, together with two blue enamelled hat pins by Marius Hammer of Bergen, Norway, both with domed blue guillouché enamelled terminals, stamped ‘Sterling 930S’ and with monogram for Marius Hammer; another blue enamelled example (not hallmarked); a green and white enamelled example, (not hallmarked); another enamelled example modelled as two outspread wings, (unmarked); a pair of silver hat pins of scroll and ball design, maker’s mark indistinct; a swallow hat pin, unmarked; a 9ct gold torpedo-shaped terminal example; a silver clover leaf example, (hallmark indistinct); a Victorian gilt metal knot terminal example and eight further hatpins, length of first hatpin 28.5cm. (28) £100-£200

First four hatpins: for similar examples see Charles Horner of Halifax, by Tom J Lawson GMI, Publishing, page 146, plate 5-20d and 5-20e and page 147 F-22: for simple example to the fifth hatpin, see page 157 plate 5-50 ; for sixth (treble clef) example, see page 144, plate 5-20a.