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Large and intact silver candlestick holder and heavy, round base, marked with crown in beaded circle

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Maritime Start Price:3,000.00 USD Estimated At:3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Large and intact silver candlestick holder and heavy, round base, marked with crown in beaded circle
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Large and intact silver candlestick holder and heavy, round base, marked with crown in beaded circle. 467 grams, 10" tall and about 6-1/2" in diameter. Very impressive artifact, solid and heavy and fully intact, with 7"-long stem of graduated-ring design screwed into a wide, tall, round base that bears a faint but distinctive crown marking on the bottom rim (showing tax paid), with small dents and splits, the surfaces only very lightly corroded and lightly toned, a significant item that originally sold for $5,280 in 1988. With Fisher photo-certificate #696+2061 (base and neck), water-damaged (from hurricane Wilma), and pedigreed to the Christie's Atocha auction of June 1988. Recovered from: Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West, Florida. Note: The crown tax mark on this piece matches marks seen on 1649-52 cob 8 reales from Potosí that were recovered from the Capitana (1654), and it is attributed to Lima, Peru, in the book Marcas de Platería Hispanoamericana, Siglos XVI-XX, by Cristina Esteras Martín.