Fine and Rare Pair of George III Silver Traveling Chambersticks (Brighton Buns) by William Sumner, 1811

Inventory Number: : 160-119

Price: $ 22,500

5 1/2 ins diameter and 3 ins high

DESCRIPTION

A good pair with plain circular dishes and molded borders, each with detachable nozzle and bobeche, extinguisher and snuffer, engraved throughout with a crest.  These are rare pieces indeed and adding to the rarity are the original fitted bolsters in chamoix leather. (the suffers by W. J Booth 1811)

Although the family has not been identified it is tempting to speculate given the date of 1811 that these pieces could have been commissioned for a combattant in the Peninsular War between England and France. 

William Sumner and W.J Booth

London, England 1811