Object Description
A handsome pair of antique silver candle holders of plain, early design with knopped columns, shaped bases and detachable nozzles. Each has a monogram in old fashioned script inscribed inside the sunken well.
Total weight 643 grams, 20.6 troy ounces.
Height 19.8cm. Base 13cm.
Braunschweig 1716-30.
Maker Georg Matthias Einboke.
Marks. One candlestick has silver stamps underneath the base for Braunschweig, lion mark, date letter “E for 1716-1730, makers mark “GME” for Georg Matthias Einboke, and an assay scrape.
The other candlestick is stamped on the edge of the base rim with the lion mark, “AF” and a later Dutch duty mark “O” for 1807.
Nozzles are unmarked.
GEORG MATTHIAS EINBOKE
Georg Matthias Einboke. Silver maker working in Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany 1716-1730.