Can anyone help identify the maker’s mark on a pair of candlesticks please?
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Sorry, I cannot give you an identification. However I have seen this mark before, also dated, as is your candlestick, 1767. The full mark is I over WF over K. Following the “normal” pattern of makers’ marks I have assigned this as WF and IK.
The reason that it cannot be identified is that the relevant record book kept by the London Goldsmiths Company, the 1758-1773 Largeworkers’ Register, has been lost. It was requisitioned for the purposes of a parliamentary enquiry and is assumed destroyed when the Houses of Parliament burnt down in 1834.
Phil
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Interesting, thank you Phil very helpful of you.
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