English Curb Link Silver bracelet, the very solid curb link chain handcrafted over a hundred years ago, almost certainly in Birmingham, known in its day as “Silver City” for the huge amounts of Silver jewellery its workshops handmade and supplied to the increasingly well-off citizenry of mercantile, industrial and colonialist England.
Every curb link of the above Silver chain is stamped with the Lion Passant, the English Silver stamp indicating 925 Silver purity.

A quite considerable part of the Silver jewellery produced in Birmingham in the late 1800s consisted of chain for watch-fob chains, to secure the valuable watch of a gentleman, connecting it from the vest pocket where it rested to a vest button hole, and most of the Silver watch-fob chains produced were of the curb link type of the above English Curb Link Silver Bracelet.

Bracelets, however, were not produced, only fob chains for watches. The above antique Silver curb link chain is an intact length, in excellent condition, modified to a bracelet in Sydney, using a traditional but new Silver swivel clasp.