Queen Anne Britannia standard silver chamberstick London 1708 Robert Cooper SOLD

by Louis Wine

Queen Anne Britannia standard silver chamberstick London 1708 Robert Cooper

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Queen Anne Britannia standard silver chamberstick London 1708 Robert Cooper. The early form chamberstick on gadroon border base, broad drip pan with flat teardrop handle. Hallmarked with good clear full Britannia marks, nozzle also with Britannia standard mark. Base with scratch weight 6:7 and owners initials H*C engraved. length 7 inches. Height: 1/78 inches. Weight approximately 6.3 oz.

Condition: Good clear hallmarks. Good colour and patina. Underside of handle has small impression dink. Reflections purely from photography only. Early examples of Silver chambersticks are now very hard to find. They were used for lighting the way to bed and because of the movement created when carried about, they had a large drip pan to catch the wax. The earliest examples have straight handles (first flat, then tubular) and then by a ring or flying handle in the first part of the 18th century.

Louis Wine

Louis Wine Ltd., Toronto specialists in Antique Silver , Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts, are a 4th generation family business.Louis Wine (1865-1946) founded the company in Dublin, Ireland in 1880. Louis Wine began selling to silver collectors in Dublin from a shop in historic Wellington Quay. In 1908, he located on Dublin's fashionable Grafton Street. To the firm came the worlds leading Georgian Silver collectors. Pieces by Paul de Lamerie, Paul Storr, Hester Bateman and Irish Georgian Silver were constantly on display. Our gallery run by Richard (Louis Wine's great grandson) in Yorkville Toronto, displays a range of fine Antique Silver, Old Sheffield Plate, Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts from the 18th-20th century, including Bateman, Storr, Ramsden, Tiffany, Knox, Liberty, Jensen, Christopher Dresser.