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Candle holder (Mexican? 1800s?) made from 33 small silver cobs.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:480.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 900.00 USD
Candle holder (Mexican? 1800s?) made from 33 small silver cobs.
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Candle holder (Mexican? 1800s?) made from 33 small silver cobs. 169.6 grams, 4" tall and 1½" in diameter. This crazy item consists of 33 genuine silver cobs (mostly Philip V Potosí 2R, but some 1R and other mints [Mexico, Lima and Guatemala] and periods) soldered together cross-side out and end-to-end vertically to form a cylindrical cup for housing a candle, with 3 cobs at the bottom bent to make feet and 2 on the side planed smooth and engraved with the names "Fedor" and "Lise" (a wedding gift, perhaps?), the base no more than a web of strings, with 3 silver-wire horizontal supports. Several of the cobs show dates and assayers, and one even has a full Central American Republic counterstamp of 1846 (Costa Rica), all the silver darkly toned, a bit gaudy overall but very appealing to collectors of cobs and antiques alike.