Dining IN | London
Dining IN | London
FOUR MATCHING SILVER TABLE CANDLESTICKS, TWO EBENEZER COKER, LONDON, 1765 AND CIRCA, TWO GEORGE FREDERICK PINNELL, LONDON, 1849
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August 12, 01:21 PM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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FOUR MATCHING SILVER TABLE CANDLESTICKS, TWO EBENEZER COKER, LONDON, 1765 AND CIRCA, TWO GEORGE FREDERICK PINNELL, LONDON, 1849
the cast sexfoil bases decorated with stylised shells above gadroon borders, rising to fluted baluster stems and shell-capped shoulders, gadroon-bordered bell-shaped sconces, similar detachable nozzles, the Coker sticks with scratch weights (one '22.13'), numbered 1 and 2, the Pinnell sticks loaded
27cm., 10½in. high
the Coker sticks, 1451gr., 46oz. 13dwt.
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George Frederick Pinnell died at the age of 50 on 22 December 1851, leaving a widow and young son, also George Frederick Pinnell, who was born on 30 March 1838. Mrs. Pinnell (née Jane Hawkins, 1814-) continued trading as a working silversmith and polisher, entering her mark at Goldsmiths’ Hall on 6 February 1852. She was declared bankrupt on 1 November 1861 and her first dividend, at the rate of 6 1/4d in the pound, was paid to her creditors on 26 June 1879. George Frederick Pinnell the younger was described as a silversmith when he was married at the age of 59 to Eliza Bunworth, a widow, the daughter of a gilder, at Holy Trinity, Grays Inn Road, Holborn on 5 September 1897.