Object Description
A scale model of anchor by Hall’s Patent Anchor Co., of 25 George Street, Sheffield, circa 1910.
Marked: HALL’S PATENT – JESSOP’S STEEL
Height: 27 cm. (With chain: 80 cm.)
Width: 14.5 cm.
Depth: 6 cm.
Weight: 1.7 kilos.
For similar Hall’s patent scale model anchors see the collections of:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Object ID: SLR1899
The Science Museum, London. Object Number:1921-434/1
Hall’s Patent Anchors were invented by John Verity of Liverpool and John Francis Hall of Sheffield, John Hall worked at Jessop and Sons steel manufactures where he design and patented the anchor which bears his name.
William Jessop & Sons of Brightside Works, Sheffield Company, established in 1774. Steel manufacturers. Makers of high-grade crucible steel for every purpose, producers of steel forgings and steel castings in the rough or finished state up to sixty tons weight for marine, railway, mining, electrical and general engineering.