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Candle Snuffers

Candle Snuffers

active 1697-1735

Joseph Bird

British

The snuffers of scissor-form, plain loop handles, the box with hinged pad with steel edge; the inside engraved with scratch weight 4=18;the oval tray on four bun feet, with moulded rim and flat baluster handle with two flanking openwork scrolls, the center engraved with accolé coats-of-arms within foliate scroll mantling

Silver

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