A Pair of Chawner & Co, London 1854, Silver Scissor Sugar Nips

Manufacturer - Chawner & Co (George William Adams), Hosier Lane, Smithfield, London

Date - 1854

Description - An uncommon and attractive pair of ‘Poker’‑style silver sugar nips, distinguished by their slender, ridge‑decorated baluster shafts and finely shaped pear‑form nips—an appealing and scarce variation for the collector.

Condition - This item is in very good condition with do sign of repair or defects

Hallmark - There is a manufacturer's cypher for Chawner & Co and a London date cypher for 1854

Dimensions - Maximum length: 11.5cms

Date Context -
* Queen Victoria begins her 17th year as Monarch
* United Kingdom declares war on Russia thus joining the Crimean War
* Crimean War: In the First Battle of Bomarsund in Åland, Royal Navy mate Charles Davis Lucas throws a live Russian artillery shell overboard before it explodes, for which incident he will be the first to be retroactively awarded the Victoria Cross in 1857
* An epidemic of cholera in London kills 10,000. Dr John Snow traces the source of one outbreak (that killed 500) to a single water pump, validating his theory that cholera is water-borne, and forming the starting point for epidemiology.#
* Florence Nightingale leaves England with 38 other trained volunteer nurses for Selimiye Barracks at Scutari in the Ottoman Empire, where they arrive the following month to care for British Army troops invalided from the Crimean War