A PAIR OF BRASS CANDLE SNUFFERS

A PAIR OF BRASS CANDLE SNUFFERS

ENGLISH, C.1800

of scissor form, one blade with pointed end for lifting the wick and with domed-rectangular ribbed box inscribed 'MR LESLIE BRADPOLE', the other blade with plate, oval bows and three baluster-shaped feet; together with a snuffer of scissor form, one blade having a pointed tip for lifting the wick and 'D'-shaped box, the other with plate stamped with maker's initial's 'I S', with 'wire' loop bows, and another early 19th century pair, one blade with an open 'D'-shaped box, stamped near the screw 'J RODGERS & SONS', with raised oval bows (3)

16.8cm long (max)

Literature

See 'British Cutlery', 9.128, fig. 107d. for a similar set of snuffers by Rodgers. See also J. Seymour Lindsay, 'Iron & Brass Implements of the English House' (1970), fig. 342, for a similar maker 'I S' pair.