James Sumpter Brigg Ownership Collar For A Cow Keeper
Stock No
5210
2015
- £1,950.00
- €2,358 Euro
- $2,441 US Dollar
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Item Description
A locking steel collar made by Hiatt of Birmingham to be worn perhaps by a cow, engraved in fine script with the name of the owner; ‘James Sumpter. Brigg’ and dating to around 1800.
13 in x 8.25 in
The family of Sumpter were recorded from the 18th century as farmers in the area of Brigg, North Lincolnshire. As late as 1905, a Mrs Thomas Sumpter is recorded as ‘cowkeeper in Wrawby Street’.
Thomas Griffin Hiatt's Company enters the Birmingham trade directories during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, around 1780, when Thomas Hiatt set up shop at 26 Masshouse Lane in Birmingham. He advertised as a maker of ‘Prisoners’ Handcuffs, Felon’s Leg Irons and Gang Chains’ many of which, and including this example, are stamped with the Hiatt name. On page 384 of ‘Marking Time, Objects, People, and their Lives’, is an entry for an Ankle or Leg Iron’, the text goes on to state that a similar shackle is held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, described in the past as a ‘Slave Ownership Bracelet’ and ‘identification band’.
Item Info
Seller
Seller Location
London, London
Period
18th Century & Earlier
Item Location
United Kingdom
Seller Location
London, London
Item Location
United Kingdom
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+44 (0)207 7275263
+44 (0)7831 561042
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