{"id":14615,"date":"2020-11-15T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=14615"},"modified":"2020-11-15T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:24:48","slug":"small-brass-candle-holder-c-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=14615","title":{"rendered":"Small brass candle holder, c.1880"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This petite brass candle holder with turned wood replacement base stands just 3.25 inches high. As there&#8217;s not much to go on here, it&#8217;s hard to know exactly what it looked like intact. It appears to have been made in England in the late 1800s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I come across brass antiques with inventive repairs less frequently than ceramic examples, as they are more durable. Please click on these 3 other examples of brass candle holders I previously posted, each with interesting early repairs: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=9386\">Brass candle holder with wood base, c.1880<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1804\">Brass candle holder, c.1880<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=474\">Brass candlestick with nutty base, c.1875.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3214.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15887\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3214.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3214-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3214-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3217.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15888\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3217.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3217-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3217-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3219.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15889\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3219.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3219-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3219-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless I find an exact match to my remaining fragment, I can only imagine what the complete candle holder looked like. Here&#8217;s a grouping showing a multitude of different bases so let your imagination run wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/decor_-_candleware_-_15_brass_candlesticks_1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14779\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/decor_-_candleware_-_15_brass_candlesticks_1024x1024.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/decor_-_candleware_-_15_brass_candlesticks_1024x1024-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/decor_-_candleware_-_15_brass_candlesticks_1024x1024-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/birchardhayes.com\">Birchard Hayes &amp; Company<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This petite brass candle holder with turned wood replacement base stands just 3.25 inches high. As there&#8217;s not much to go on here, it&#8217;s hard to know exactly what it looked like intact. It appears to have been made in England in the late 1800s. I come across brass antiques with inventive repairs less frequently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[72,12],"class_list":["post-14615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candle-holder","tag-brass","tag-wood-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14615"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15898,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions\/15898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}