A pair of virtually identical candlesticks, probably by James Gould, engraved with arms of the Nelson family of Virginia and descended in that family with other plate known to have been owned by Thomas Nelson (1677-1745) of Yorktown, is on loan to the National Park Service, while a similar set of four without applied shells, by William Gould of 1741, is in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg (see John D. Davis, English Silver at Williamsburg, 1976, p.28). A further set of four identical to the present examples, of 1762, maker's mark of William Cafe, was sold Phillips, London, September 25, 1987, lot 145.