What's it Worth?

Revere Silversmiths, founded around 1914 in Brooklyn, N.Y., made your candlesticks. After some mergers, it became Revere Silver Co., a division of Crown Silver, in 1960. Your items are reproductions of Chippendale-era sticks and were made to complement the Colonial Revival furniture that was popular in the 1920s and ’30s. Because the silver sheet that was pressed to form the design of your sticks was thin, cement was placed inside the hollow forms prior to the bottoms being attached, which added stability. For ordering, “654” was the stock number. The outer shell is sterling, so there is melt value. In fact, most 20th-century reproduction candlesticks are now bought solely for melt value; a scrap-metal buyer would pay between $20 and $25 for the pair. If not sold for their melt value, your candlesticks would fetch between 25 and 35 percent of what a new pair of similar sterling candlesticks would cost. In an antiques shop in a large metropolitan market, your sticks would be priced around $75, or occasionally higher. Values on eBay range from as low as $10 to as high as $45.