vintage Silver Hallmarked HH .90 souvenir handbell featuring a traditional Dutch windmill handle decoration
Key Details & Origins
Design: The bell base features an ornate floral scroll pattern embossed along its bottom rim, while the handle functions as a sculpted brick-textured windmill with rotating blades.
Historical Context: This style of souvenir heavily mimics historic Dutch windmill cups (molenbekers or wager cups) from the 16th and 17th centuries. Traditionally, people played a drinking game where they would blow into a tube to spin the mill sails and had to down the alcohol before the blades stopped