sparrow-hawk

1) The OED has this as the name for a small anvil used in silver-working, with examples from 1869.

The following reference in a goldsmith’s inventory takes its history back to the Tudor period: 1490 De ij sparhawke stethez xd York.

places York
dates 1490

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