LONDON, 1693, MAKER'S MARK B OR IB SCRIPT WITH CROWN ABOVE

The maker's mark on this lot does not appear to be recorded by either Ian Pickford in Jackson’s Goldsmiths and Their Marks, Woodbridge, 1989, or by Dr David Mitchell in his new work Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Their Marks and Their Lives, Woodbridge, 2017. The mark can be compared to one attributed by Dr Mitchell to John Bache, op. cit., pp. 238-240. Bache’s later Britannia standard mark certainly appears on candlesticks and therefore it is possible that the mark on the present candlesticks is a variation of his mark.