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Antique George III Old Sheffield Plate Chamber Stick, 19th Century

$336.37List Price

About the Item

This is a fine antique Old Sheffield plate silver on copper chamber stick with baluster pillar, circa 1840 in date, and bears the impressed "hand" mark for Pelly, Parkin Co. The circular chamber stick is decorated with stylized gadroon borders. The inverted bell candleholder with central wick-trimmer apertures and separate sconce together with a cone snuffer. Add some Georgian charm to your home with this lovely chamber stick. Condition: In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation of condition. Dimensions in cm: Height 12 x width 17 x depth 13 Dimensions in inches: Height 4.7 x width 6.7 x depth 5.1 Old Sheffield plate or ‘fused plate’ as it is sometimes known, was the first commercially viable method of plating metal. The material was accidentally invented by Thomas Boulsover, of Sheffield's Cutlers Company, in 1743. While trying to repair the handle of a customer's decorative knife, he heated it too much and the silver started to melt. When he examined the damaged handle, he noticed that the silver and copper had fused together very strongly. Experiments showed that the two metals behaved as one when he tried to reshape them, even though he could clearly see two different layers. Boulsover set up in business, funded by Strelley Pegge of Beauchief, and carried out further experiments in which he put a thin sheet of silver on a thick ingot of copper and heated the two together to fuse them. When the composite block was hammered or rolled to make it thinner, the two metals were reduced in thickness at similar rates. Using this method, Boulsover was able to make sheets of metal which had a thin layer of silver on the top surface and a thick layer of copper underneath. When this new material was used to make buttons, they looked and behaved like silver buttons but were a fraction of the cost. The technique Boulsover developed was to sandwich an ingot of copper between two plates of silver, tightly bind it with wire, heat it in a furnace and then mill it out in to sheet, from which objects could be made.

Dimensions:
Height: 4.73 in (12 cm)Width: 6.7 in (17 cm)Depth: 5.12 in (13 cm)
Style:
George III (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Sheffield Plate
Place of Origin:
England
Period:
1840-1849
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1840
Condition:
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: A13011stDibs: LU950619937972

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