Saucer-shaped bobeche with spur to one side on cylindrical shaft with ejector, raised on a domed, circular base.
hogscraper candlesticks
iron (metal)
Iron
Candlestick
1) Cast mark on ejector handle: ""Shaw Stem""(?). 2) Adhesive tape label on bottom: ""LITTLE"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Shaw's Patent (Maker)
probably Birmingham, United Kingdom
7 1/8 (H), 3 7/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.196
England (United Kingdom) [country]
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