A pair of Irish cast silver candlesticks maker's mark probably T Walker, Dublin 1725 (2)

A pair of Irish cast silver candlesticks maker's mark probably T Walker, Dublin 1725 Spool shaped nozzles with moulded girdle, baluster knop columns, sunken well on moulded stepped bases with incurved corners, engraved on the base with two crests, that of a sword erect, and the other upon a rock proper in front of a tower sable a hind passant argent resting the dexter foreleg on a pheon gules with motto 'VIRTUTE ET LABORE', underside of bases with scratch weight '11=4' and '11=3', height 15.3cm, weight 20.8oz. (2) Footnotes: Provenance: The Patrick and Mavis Walker Silver Collection The two crests appear to belong to different periods and appear unrelated to each other. The older is the first crest and the second crest with its motto is possibly as recent as the early twentieth century. First crest, a sword erect, is likely to be that of the original owner. Possibilities are: ALLIN, BOYES, BUCHANNAN, DYMOKE. Second crest, probably early 20th century, is that used with the armorial of the LORD family of Highfield Hall, Gosforth, Northumberland. It is unrecorded until the records of the twentieth century when it first appears in the publication Armorial Families (1929). Notably Sir Riley LORD (1838-1920) KB who in 1858 married Mary HAGGAS (1834-1894) daughter of John HAGGAS of Keighley, Yorkshire, received his knighthood in 1900 when he would have been likely to have commission a grant of arms. His son Albert Alexander LORD Esq. (1858-1915) married in 1883 Emily Louisa GREAVES (1861-1946) of Newcastle upon Tyne but pre-deceased him. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing