NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s announces that the sale of a Sheffield-plated silver wine cooler, given by George Washington to Alexander Hamilton in 1797, will highlight the week of Americana sales on January 19, 2012 (estimate: $400,000-600,000). This 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. Jeanne Sloane, Deputy Chairman and Head of Silver, comments, “Christie’s is honored to have been entrusted with this piece of American material history—the only three-dimensional object known to connect Washington with Hamilton, his most important collaborator. We were thrilled to locate