Saucer-shaped bobeche with spur at one side on cylindrical shaft with ejector on slightly domed round base; painted a gray-black color.
hogscraper candlesticks
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
Iron
Painted
Lighting
Candlestick
1) Cast: ""SHAWS PATENT"" 2) Adhesive tape: ""Little"" 3) Tag (probably came with it to Littles; now in accession file): ""Beemerville 2-14-1931 / Candlestick over 100 years old / Presented to James Turner by / George Clark / Branchville, NJ""; NFL has written on verso: ""Hog scraper / candlestick. / Marked on slide `Shaw's Patent' / Shaw is believed to / have been a Birmingham, / Eng. maker"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Shaw's Patent (Maker)
probably Birmingham, United Kingdom
6 1/2 (H), 4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.195
England (United Kingdom) [country]
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