A PAIR OF GEORGE I SILVER TAPERSTICKS

MARK OF THOMAS MERRY I, LONDON, 1716

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE I SILVER TAPERSTICKS
MARK OF THOMAS MERRY I, LONDON, 1716
Hexagonal, on stepped bases supporting knobbed baluster stems, each engraved on base with crest, marked underneath
4 ½ in. (11.5 cm.) high; 7 oz. (219 gr.)

Provenance

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, English Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, New York, 1977, pp. 57, no. 108.

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