Featured Elusive Chamberstick

I bought this from a blurry pic expecting it to be brass, but it has cleaned up a treat and is silver and carved mother of pearl. There are no marks that I can find (yes I have disassembled it to check) and the acid suggests it's Sterling silver. It's a bit smaller than average at about 10cm across.

I'm having trouble finding similar items to date it, the only one I can find is a sold reference with the period given as William IV, maker Joseph Willmore, but no date letter for confirmation. Hoping to find a bit more evidence for period, any thoughts/links?

 

Wow! And this little snuffer is adorable too

 

That is just gorgeous!
Sorry, I'm no help, I'm just wondering how you managed to clean that silver so beautifully?

 

I should had done a before/after! Disassembled it first, rubbed it gently with silver dip (the acid type) on a cloth to get it to the level I wanted then selectively buffed with Silvo on cloth/qtip as appropriate for the areas I wanted to shine. Most of it is too delicate for the polishing wheel/lathe brush.

 

Thank you, great info!
There's a few intricate pieces I'd love to clean up in my collection.

 

THIS ONE is described simply as c.1900 "Victorian Foreign Silver Chamberstick":

 

Your snuffer looks like a better match to THIS English 1829 chamberstick:
chamberstick:

 

Many thanks, those are very useful, the one I found is here:

https://www.bexfield.co.uk/05/g200.htm

It is more elaborate and a nicer piece, although the handle is a match as are the leaf sprigs. It has a makers mark and I've been able to confirm that matches the William IV dating.

So it probably is early 19th, which is not what I was expecting, I would also had thought c1900 originally.

 

a beauty too, it seems you highly SCORED!

 

And the snuffer a rose. Could be symbolic for a Dutch-English alliance, maybe a reference to the earlier William and Mary period?
OK, I'm reading too much into it.

 

Thanks, I don't think it's going to be approaching the price of the one in the link, but as it cost me embarrassingly little it should do nicely.

 

We could do with a bit more of that now!

 

It will all be good again. There are no hard feelings on our side, except maybe for a few fishermen from Urk, but Urk is considered a separate country anyway. Pretty village though.