A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CHAMBER CANDLESTICKS AND SNUFFERS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CHAMBER CANDLESTICKS AND SNUFFERS
LONDON, 1792, MAKER'S MARK OF EDWARD JONES, THE SNUFFERS MAKER'S MARK OF WILKES BOOTH

Each of circular form with reeded borders, the scroll handle with removable conical extinguisher with urn-form finial, the urn-form socket with removable reeded nozzle, with scissor-form snuffers, the bases, extinguishers, nozzles and snuffers each engraved with the same crest and motto, fully marked--6 5/8in. (16.8cm.) long
(24 oz.)

Lot Essay

The crest and motto are those of Ogilvy.

Wilkes Booth was the brother of Richard Booth, both sons of John Booth (a silversmith) and Elizabeth Wilkes. He left England as a youth to fight on the American side in the Revolutionary War, but returned home where he practised as a lawyer. Wilkes Booth's brother Richard was the father of the celebrated actor Julius Brutus Booth (1792-1852) and grandfather of John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.