Early Southern New Jersey candlestick

[Steve/sewell]

I picked this up recently a 1790 to 1810 light green aqua footed base, ballast stemmed
candlestick.The candlestick is 5 inche's tall and roughly an inch and a half round.
Most of these were end of day manufactured as they were not part of the regular
production of an early colonial glass house.This candle holder is very heavy in weight
proportionately as the glass would crack over time at the flared rim if it was too thin
near the flame.The color has the distinctive South Jersey green in the aqua as usually is
the case with either Stanger or Heston and Carpenter in Glassboro,or Jonathan Haines
Gloucester glass works in Clementon or James Lee's glass works in Port Elizabeth.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Number 2

 

[Steve/sewell]

Number 3

 

[Steve/sewell]

Number 4

 

[Steve/sewell]

Number 5 the flared lip.

 

[saratogadriver]

Lovely proportions. Obviously a very well made piece by someone who knew what they were doing.

Jim G

 

[Steve/sewell]

Last one of the base.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Thanks Jim it is a very neat piece of glass.When the wife approves of it as part of my collection I know it is OK.She hates bottles!!

 

[bostaurus]

That is very nice. I would imagine not many of them survived intact.

 

[Oldihtractor]

Where you find dat?? At huh huh ???