Candlesticks owned by Donald Trump and ex-wife Marla Maples to be auctioned off

They’re probably not for every decor style, but a pair of hand-carved, gilt candlesticks that go up for sale Thursday, Feb. 22, will offer ardent supporters of President Donald Trump a chance to make their home great again.

The candlesticks were once owned by Marla Maples, the second of Trump’s three wives, and sat on the dinner table in the former couple’s residence at Trump Tower.

The set, according to a press release from Nate Sanders Auctions of Los Angeles, is still encrusted at the top with wax remnants and accompanied by an unsigned letter from Marla Maples on her personal letterhead stating, “This set was owned and displayed on the dinner table in the home of Mr. Donald Trump and Mrs. Marla Maples Trump in Trump Tower, New York City, during their marriage.”

The press release also says, “After Marla Maples divorced from Donald Trump, she took the luxurious candlesticks to her new home in Calabasas, California, where she resided with her daughter, Tiffany Trump.”

It goes on to explain the history of the Maples-Trump relationship: “Maples met Trump in 1989 and had an affair with him while he was married to his first wife, Ivana. Trump married Marla Maples in 1993 at the Plaza Hotel in New York. They divorced in 1999 after Maples was accused of cheating on Trump with her bodyguard.”

Just imagine what those gilded cherubs have seen.

Shortly after the presidential election in 2016, The Washington Post noted how Trump appeared on the cover of The New York Post on eight consecutive days during “the soap-opera drama of his adulterous romance with Marla Maples in the early 1990s.”

Each candleholder is 18 inches tall and about 6 inches wide and deep. Sanders is handling the online auction. Bidding begins Feb. 22 at $6,000.

This story was originally published February 21, 2018 at 12:15 PM with the headline "Candlesticks owned by Donald Trump and ex-wife Marla Maples to be auctioned off."