Description:
One of a pair of britannia tall candlesticks with flat attached bobeche, candle cup, and small button knop. The vase-shaped central shaft sits on flared pedestal with a circular base. One of the candlesticks has remnants of a push-up ejector for the candle in the base; the other has been lost. The stamped mark on the candle cup has an impressed "X" surmounted by a crown; adjacent is a rectangular mark which could read "LONDON" (the mark is extremely rubbed). There is an impressed "ENGLAND" on exterior rim of each foot. The addition of the word "England" may indicate that these candlesticks were made after the McKinley Act of 1891, when all objects imported into the United States had to be marked with the country of origin. The bases of both of the sticks are dented and both do not stand flat on their bases. These cast candlesticks were soldered together and then spun on a lathe with a hollow in shaft.
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