Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A DOCUMENTED EARLY 19TH CENTURY RUSHLIGHT

SOUTH EAST ENGLAND, PROBABLY SUSSEX

having a pair of wrought iron slender and round-ended spring loaded jaws, with round-section arm and stem, on a 'bottle-shaped' turned elm base

22.6cm high

Provenance

Bruton Knowles, The 'Bertie' Isher Collection, 27th April 1976, lot 12.

Literature

Illustrated and discussed in R. Ashley, 'The Rushlight & Related Holders', p. 205, fig. 162 A.