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Description: | Silver-plated sheet copper alloy candle snuffer. The snuffer would have originally been conical in shape, but has since been flattened. It has two rolled ribs just below the collar or base of the snuffer, and is probably missing the knop on the top of the point. The snuffer is made of one single sheet that has been folded with no overlap and then perforated with one rivet hole about half way down the length of the snuffer on the back. The rivet would have attached to the handle of the snuffer, which is now missing.
The July, 2005 issue of Treasure Hunting Magazine illustrates a very similar example on page 59, Fig.19, which is not dated.
Similar examples in silver can be seen illustrated in Hughes (1957) on page 168, Plates 223-227, which are dated to the 18th century.
If this is Sheffield Plate, and it looks from the thickness of the plating that it might be, then the snuffer would date from the late 18th century,
c.1770-1800. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1770
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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