Description

An excellent quality Victorian silver taper stick with pretty cast and pierced decoration. Cast silver. Detachable nozzle.

Weight 155 grams, 4.9 troy ounces.
Height 11 cms. Base 8 cm.
London 1839.
Maker Thomas Edwards.
Sterling silver.

Marks. Both the base and nozzle are stamped with English silver hallmarks.

Literature: Tapersticks, averaging about 5 inches high, are miniature table candlesticks used to hold a wax taper. Tapersticks were not used for lighting but melted sticks of wax for sealing letters or gave a flame for tobacco pipes or large candles. They are rarer than candlesticks and very few existed prior to the Queen Anne period. They usually appear in singles and pairs of tapersticks command a premium price.

The taperstick is in very good condition.

Maker: Thomas Edwards

Thomas Edwards, London silversmith, apprenticed to John Robins 1789. Freedom unrecorded. First mark entered as plateworker 1816. Second mark 1822. 3rd mark 1822, 4th mark 1823.

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