Push-up chamberstick with round lipped pan to which is attached round shaft with push-up attachment at side; over lipped bobache at top; engraved handle ring at edge of pan riveted in three places.
chambersticks
brass (alloy)
engraving (printing process)
Candleholder
Candlestick
Candlestick
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
England
4 x 5 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.247
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