A pair of silver-gilt three light candelabra, the bases Robert Garrard, 1841, the branches Henry Lambert for Lambert & Co. overstriking William Stocker, London, 1906

the shaped oval base cast with arabesque scrolls, matt strapwork and classical masks, the similarly decorated baluster stems further decorated with fox's heads, detachable scroll branches and nozzles with rosettes and classical masks

One with slightly uneven base, probably all gilded in 1906 when branches were added to bases, overall in excellent condition
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Lambert & Co, established about 1803, was one of Victorian London's most important retail goldsmiths and jewellers. From its large shop in Coventry Street, Leicester Square, the firm sold a wide range of silver, including antique, second-hand and modern. Lambert's employed a number of outside manufacturing silversmiths of whom perhaps the most well known to collectors of old silver was C.T. & G. Fox. Among the firm's other suppliers of silver may be mentioned Wrangham & Moulson and their successors; also Stocker of Mercer Street, Long Acre, the actual makers of the branches in this lot; Pairpoint Brothers and Barnabas Blackburn. Lambert's was eventually amalgamated with Harman & Co Ltd in 1916, when its Coventry Street premises, in houses dating from the 18^th Century, were demolished.