Victorian 15 carat Gold Telescopic Propelling Pencil with Seal Case - Baron Hindlip

An extremely fine quality heavy Victorian 15 carat gold (tested) Telescopic Propelling Pencil with 'golf ball' finial contained within a spiral fluted column shaped case, the base formed as a seal engraved with the crest of Baron Hindlip. (Upon a pheon a plover close, holding in the beak and ear of wheat, all or). Probably for Sir Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip.

By Sampson Mordan & Co, London c1890.

Baron Hindlip, of Hindlip in the County of Worcester and of Alsop-en-le-Dale in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1886 for the businessman and Conservative politician Sir Henry Allsopp, 1st Baronet. He was head of the brewing firm of Samuel Allsopp & Sons of Burton upon Trent, and he also represented East Worcestershire in Parliament.

Allsopp had already been created a baronet, of Hindlip Hall in the Parish of Hindlip in the County of Worcester, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 7 May 1880. His son, the second Baron, was also head of the family firm and sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Staffordshire East and Taunton. His son, the third Baron, was a junior Unionist whip in the House of Lords from 1907 to 1914. The third Baron's younger son, the fifth Baron (who succeeded his elder brother), was a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire. As of 2020, the titles are held by the latter's son, the sixth Baron, who succeeded in 1993.

Open 124 mm
Closed 80 mm

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