A pair of Victorian silver short candlesticks. Hawksworth, Eyre & Co., Sheffield, 1896. The nozzles with removable drip pans to tapering squared stems repousse decorated with foliate motifs, the square bases designed with foliate motifs, filled, 15.3cm high. The candlesticks together with: a George V silver bachelor's teapot and twin-handled sugar bowl, Sheffield, 1913, Mappin & Webb, both of octagonal baluster form, the teapot with ebonised scrolling handle and finial, the teapot 13.5cm high, the sugar bowl 12.3cm wide; and an Edwardian silver cream jug, Chester, 1901, Jay, Richard Attenborough & Co., of baluster form and raised on three pad feet, with scrolling handle, 10.4cm high (inc. handle), total weighable silver approx. 17.4ozt (5)

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