Price On Request A Set of Four George III CandlesticksSilver London 1760 Maker’s mark of William Café Height: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm) Weight: 119 oz (3,713 g) Each on square base, with knopped stem and spool-form socket, with removable nozzle, with gadrooned borders throughout, the stem engraved with a coat-of-arms. Artist Biography:Son of Biles Cafe of the parish of Blackford in the County of Somerset yeoman, apprenticed to his brother John Cafe 11 March 1742. "Turned himself over" to Simon Jouet Citizen and Goldsmith of London "for the residue of ye turn" 19 March 1746. Free 5 October 1757. Livery, March 1758. Mark entered as largeworker, 16 August 1757, probably on the death or illness of his brother John, with whom he was presumably already working, to judge by their indistinguishable cast candlesticks of which, from surviving examples, they appear almost to have had a monopoly in the trade. Heal records him in Gutter Lane till bankruptcy in July 1772, but he appears without category, as working in "Marybone", in the Parl. Report list 1773. On 2 July 1777 a Thomas Neale was apprenticed to him, when Cafe is described as "of the same place" as the boy's father, "High Street Marylebone"; on 1 December 1784 his own son Thomas was also apprenticed to him at the same address. Cafe died between 1802 and 1811.