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Maker(s):Gleason, Roswell
Culture:American (1799-1887)
Title:candlestick
Date Made:1822-1850
Type:Lighting Device
Materials:base metal: pewter
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Dorchester
Accession Number:  HD 1491.1
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of a pair of pewter candlesticks with the touchmark of "R. GLEASON" in a rectangle on the base for Roswell Gleason (1799-1887) who worked between 1822-1871. Britannia was a harder metal than the earlier pewter, with greater resistance to wear; lead was eliminated and replaced with combinations of tin, copper and antimony. They have removable bobeches.

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