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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE STERLING SILVER BODIED POWDER-FLASK BY SYKES, London hallmarked for 1839, with slender reverse taper 6in. body engraved with a garter inscribed 'PERSEVERE' around a Griffon's head above a recumbent crescent in turn above a wreath, hallmarked turned neck and silver plated brass top with adjustable measure and signed 'SYKES PATENT' and 'SYKES' respectively, external blued mainspring.
wolferton-norfolk, Reino Unido
