Description:
Brass chamberstick with a long tapered handle ending in a crook, which can be used as a hanger. The oval base has a socket with a large square punch hole, used to remove candle stubs, and an inverted rim; and the handle is attached to the pan with copper rivets. A chamberstick was designed to be easily moved from place to place, from which to light other candles or a fire. The scroll handle, which replaced the elongated carrying handle such as on this example in the 1730s, made it easy and stable to carry; the width of the pan and low height of the shaft prevented it from overturning and starting a fire; and the dished base caught candle drippings. Chambersticks were often equipped with a conical extinguisher and a scissors-like snuffer. Seymour Lindsay states that "the frying pan form, so common on the Continent, was not so much used in this country."
Subjects:
Copper; Brass Link to share this object record:
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