4198. Victorian Silver Presentation Shovel

Superb quality antique silver commemorative shovel with carved mahogany handle. Very interesting railway inscription. Length 88 cms. Width 19 cms. London 1884. Maker FS over JH. The handle with silver mount, part marked, probably Birmingham 1888.

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Inscription

Foreign Cattle Market - This spade was used by Thomas Briggs Esq - Chairman of the Cattle Markets Committee of the Corporation of London - in turning the first sod for the New Railway 13th December 1898

Sir John Wolfe Barry KCB FRS engineer

J. Strachan contractor