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January 2019 • Volume 32 No. 5 www.antiqueshoppefl.com TAKE ONE
Sampson Mordan Perfume Bottles
By Larry LeMasters
LeMasters’ Antique News Service
Sampson Mordan (1790-1843), following Sampson Mordan’s true claim to lasting
several years of apprenticeship, became one historical fame, shared with John Isaac
of the best-known British silversmiths and Hawkins, was as the co-inventor of the first
inventors of the early 1800s. His company patented mechanical pencil. Mordan and
(S. Mordan & Co.) earned the reputation Hawkins patented a metal pencil with
for being one of England’s outstanding an internal mechanism for propelling
silversmith companies of the Victorian Era, the graphite shaft forward during use,
a time when Victorians loved shiny silver revolutionizing pencils.
items as much as they did tea. Their basic design is still used in
mechanical pencils today, and collectors
Circa 1886, porcelain perfume bottle with S. Mordan around the world pay as much as $1,500 for Beautiful mother-of-pearl Webb glass
sterling silver “chick” head screw top. This beautiful a genuine Mordan mechanical pencil. perfume bottle produced by
bottle is valued at $1,600. Continued on Page 3 S. Mordan & Co. Valued at $2, 200.
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