MAKER'S MARK OF GD, POSSIBLY FOR GEORGE DOWIG, BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1795

A pair of virtually identical candlesticks at the Winterthur Museum by John Lynch of Baltimore is illustrated in Martha Fales, American Silver in the H.F. Du Pont Wintherthur Museum, 1958, fig.116, and in Ian Quimby, American Silver at Winterthur, 1995, p.394.