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An Unusual Edwardian Silver Mounted Match Striker
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An Unusual Edwardian Silver Mounted Match Striker

1900 - 1920
Description

An unusual silver mounted match striker, dating from the Edwardian era. This interesting example has a bucket shaped, pedestal body with a circular tray for the spent matches. It has a frosted glass body to facilitate striking and a silver collar surrounding the match reservoir. The base has a light concave. A good collector's item. Dimensions below.

Postage and Packing :- £8.00 UK

£16.00 Europe

£22.00 Outside Europe

Condition :- Good with no cracks or chips to the glass body. The silver collar has a few light blemishes, commensurate with age and use.

Hallmarks :- Clear and readable.

Date :- Birmingham 1904.

Maker :- Hart & Sons.

Height :- 5.5 cms.

Diameter of base :- 7 cm

Physical Dimensions
Height
5.5cm (2.17")
Width
7cm (2.76")
Depth
7cm (2.76")
Declaration

Andrew Cox Antiques has dated this Edwardian Silver Match Striker to the Edwardian era.

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SA1068383
Dealers Internal Reference
ACA1522
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Description
An unusual silver mounted match striker, dating from the Edwardian era.
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This interesting example has a bucket shaped, pedestal body with a circular tray for the spent matches.
Andrew Cox Antiques

It has a frosted glass body to facilitate striking and a silver collar surrounding the match reservoir. The base has a light concave. A good collector's item. Dimensions below.

fig 1. An Edwardian clear glass match striker featuring a tray base, a frosted striking column, and a hallmarked sterling silver rim holding matches.
fig 1. An Unusual Edwardian Silver Mounted Match Striker

Postage and Packing :- £8.00 UK

£16.00 Europe

£22.00 Outside Europe

Condition :- Good with no cracks or chips to the glass body. The silver collar has a few light blemishes, commensurate with age and use.

Hallmarks :- Clear and readable.

Date :- Birmingham 1904.

Maker :- Hart & Sons.

Height :- 5.5 cms.

Diameter of base :- 7 cm

Height
5.5cm (2.17")
Width
7cm (2.76")
Depth
7cm (2.76")
Date of Manufacture

Andrew Cox Antiques has dated this Edwardian Silver Match Striker to the Edwardian era.

Reference Numbers
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SA1068383
Dealers Internal Ref
ACA1522
Andrew Cox Antiques
Andrew Cox Antiques
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Specialists in quality antique silver, glassware, jewellery and object de vertu

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Archive I An Edwardian clear glass match striker featuring a tray base, a frosted striking column, and a hallmarked sterling silver rim holding matches.

An Unusual Edwardian Silver Mounted Match Striker

Archive II An Edwardian clear glass match striker featuring a tray base, a frosted striking column, and a hallmarked sterling silver rim holding matches. View II
Archive III An Edwardian clear glass match striker featuring a tray base, a frosted striking column, and a hallmarked sterling silver rim holding matches. View III
Archive IV An Edwardian clear glass match striker featuring a tray base, a frosted striking column, and a hallmarked sterling silver rim holding matches. View IV
Archive V An Edwardian clear glass match striker featuring a tray base, a frosted striking column, and a hallmarked sterling silver rim holding matches. View V
Archive VI An Edwardian clear glass match striker featuring a tray base, a frosted striking column, and a hallmarked sterling silver rim holding matches. View VI
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An Edwardian clear glass match striker featuring a tray base, a frosted striking column, and a hallmarked sterling silver rim holding matches.
An unusual Edwardian silver mounted match striker
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An Edwardian clear glass match striker featuring a tray base, a frosted striking column, and a hallmarked sterling silver rim holding matches.
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  • ObjectMatch Strikers
  • Period1900 - 1920
  • StyleEdwardian
  • MaterialGlass, Sterling Silver
  • ColourClear
  • MotifsHallmarked silver rim, Frosted glass striking surface, Wide glass tray base
  • SizeH 5.5 cm (2 in) x W 7 cm (3 in) x D 7 cm (3 in)

An Edwardian silver-mounted match striker takes the form of a clear and frosted glass vessel designed for a gentleman's library or mantelpiece. The piece comprises a wide, circular glass tray base supporting a bucket-shaped pedestal body with a frosted glass striking surface and a silver collar surrounding the match reservoir. Several matches with red heads rest inside the collar, held by the sterling silver rim which bears clear hallmarks including the Birmingham assay mark for 1904 by maker Hart & Sons. The structure incorporates a light concave base and clean moulded glass contours. Measuring 5.5 cm high by 7 cm wide and 7 cm deep, this compact desk accessory functions today as a decorative mantelpiece ornament or a practical table display piece. The glass body shows good condition without cracks or chips, while the silver collar displays light age-related blemishes. Clear and readable hallmarks complete the piece, making it a functional collector's item for domestic display.

FAQs

Popular during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, match strikers were desktop or tabletop accessories designed to hold friction matches and provide an abrasive surface, often frosted or ribbed glass, to ignite them.

Edwardian match strikers typically combine heavy clear or moulded glass with hallmarked sterling silver mounts around the rim, utilising etched or frosted glass surfaces as the striking area.

Clean the glass body with a soft microfibre cloth and warm soapy water, avoiding harsh chemicals, and gently buff the silver mount using a specialist silver polishing cloth to prevent tarnish.

Place the striker on a mantelpiece beside candles, on an office desk, or on a coffee table alongside art books to serve as a functional decorative accent.

Authentic pieces feature official British hallmarks stamped on the silver rim indicating the maker, silver purity, assay office, and date letter corresponding to the Edwardian reign between 1901 and 1910.
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