This Sheffield silver plated wine cooler was a gift from George Washington. (Click to enlarge). UPDATE: IT MADE $782,500
THIS Sheffield plated silver wine cooler, a gift from George Washington, is at Christie’s sale of Important American Silver in New York on January 19. He gave it to the founding father and first US Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in 1797.
The four-bottle wine cooler is an exceptionally well documented historical object, symbolizing the famous partnership between Washington and Hamilton in the early days of the republic. Never before seen by the public, it is being sold by direct descendants of Alexander Hamilton. It is estimated at $400,000-600,000.
UPDATE: It sold for $782,500 in a sale of 88 lots that brought in a total of $2,028,000.