Jewellery, Objects of Vertu, Silver and Watches

A George III silver parasol handle, telescopic and four-draw, of plain design, inscribed ‘Bt at Weeks’s Rl Museum, Tichborne St’ and numbered ‘7054’, maker’s mark ‘G C’ (probably George Creak), London 1802, length extended 58cm.

£150-£200

Thomas Weekes (1743-1834), the proprietor of a museum of mechanical curiosities, clocks, automata, etc, established in 1788 in Tichborne Street, which combined as a retail outlet. Perhaps the most famous exhibit was the silver mechanical swan, now a centrepiece in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. Tichborne Street ran between Regent St and the present day Piccadilly Circus and disappeared in the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue.