1890s Silver Candelabra From Sherry’s Restaurant in Nyc

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A beautiful and rare antique circa 1890s heavy silver plated three light candelabra, from the iconic Sherry’s restaurant in New … more A beautiful and rare antique circa 1890s heavy silver plated three light candelabra, from the iconic Sherry’s restaurant in New York City! Sherry’s opened in the 1880s and would become a gilded age New York institution, moving three times to bigger and bigger locations before eventually closing in 1919 citing the upcoming prohibition.

On March 28, 1903, Sherry’s was the site of a now infamous dinner on horseback given by Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, a gas company heir from Chicago who had recently opened a private 25,000-square-foot, trotting stable near 196th Street in what is now Fort Tryon Park. He had thought of having his dinner at the stable but instead rented the grand ballroom of Sherry's. Against a canvas backdrop showing an English country scene, and on a floor covered with turf, Billings and his 36 guests sat astride their mounts, who had been taken up to the fourth-floor ballroom by freight elevator. The diners ate from trays attached to their saddles and sipped Champagne through rubber tubes from iced bottles in their saddlebags. An antique picture postcard commemorating the event (seen the the last photo) is included with this piece.

In excellent antique condition, it does have some light signs of use, but no large dents, bumps or damage, and it has polished up beautifully! The restaurant name is marked on the base along with Gorham makers marks , the date symbol is rubbed and I’m unable to make it out, but every Gorham piece we’ve had from this restaurant has been made in 1891.

Measures approx. 5.5 inches tall to the top of the candle cups, 8 inches tall to the top of the center finial, by 8.5 inches wide at the widest point. less