Candlestick
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Assembled candlestick composed of a British infantry officer's sword hilt for the stem and an English-style, swan-neck riding spur screwed into its pommel for the base; two, domed-top, flathead screws in the spur's terminals can be adjusted for stability. Removable circular nozzle, cylindrical candle cup or socket and lobed circular bobeche or drip pan are screwed into the ricasso. Ricasso stamped "PROVED" in a circle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Lighting
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Mary E. Maxwell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.378940
label: catalog number
content: 378940
label: accession number
content: 146604
objectType: label: Object Name
content: candlestick
label: Object Type
content: Candleholders
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (nozzle, sconce, bobeche, possibly stirrup material)
label: Physical Description
content: plated steel (knuckle guard material)
label: Physical Description
content: shagreen (grip material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver wire (grip material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (washer material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 9 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in; 11.1125 cm x 23.495 cm x 14.605 cm