Shields Derringer Cufflinks

Description

Shields of Fifth Avenue was a prestigious jewellery store in New York City during the 1940s and fifties, closing in the 1960s. These T-bar cufflinks, modelled on a 1866 version of a Derringer pistol, named after gun maker Henry Deringer (the name became mispelled after widespread reporting on the Lincoln assassination, committed by John Wilkes Booth with a Philadelphia Deringer). The handles are genuine mother-of-pearl, as they would have been on the original handgun, with accurate detailing on the hammer and lock, measuring 25mm at their widest.