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Description: | Chamber candlestick with the initials of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805).
Plain Sheffield plate with the silver plating worn through in places, some dents, and the extinguisher missing. The candlestick has a socket and a lever in the stem with a sliding knob to raise the candle. The stem is mounted in a deep-sided conical bowl or tray, on one side of which is a half handle with a thumbpiece and a slot to take an extinguisher. The tray and socket are gadrooned, and the outside of the tray is engraved with 'N' surmounted by a viscount's coronet and 'B' with a duke's coronet.
A similar Sheffield plate example with Earl Nelson's crests and coronets on silver thumbpiece (which is perhaps a later addition) is in a private collection.
Inscription.
caption: Candlestick | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | candlesticks Nelson Vice-Admiral Horatio | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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