Four Silver-Mounted Tortoiseshell Candlesticks
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Description
Two Pairs of George V Sterling Silver-Mounted Tortoiseshell Candlesticks, Hallmarked Sheffield, one 1922-1923, by Walter Latham & Sons, the other 1926-1927, by Frank Cobb Co. Ltd., each in the form of a Corinthian column with slightly tapering tortoiseshell shaft, the capital with cavetto-canted square nozzle, the square base cavetto domed and beaded, the Cobb example with fixed beaded-edge bobeches, the Latham pair with bobeches lacking, h. 9", w. 4", weighted. Provenance: Christie's, Sale 9056, "British Interiors", January 21, 1999, lot 526.
Condition
Scattered tiny dings around the bases of the candlesticks commensurate with age. One with a tight 1" hairline in the base of the tortoiseshell. The surface of the tortoiseshell has patinated.
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Four Silver-Mounted Tortoiseshell Candlesticks
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
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