Candle Holder?

[cambria09]

Hello All. I found this yesterday near an old RR right of way...not magnetic, pewter maybe...gotta be a candle holder right?

Thanks for the view and any comments...Good Luck out there. C9

 

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[4x4x4]

....Very well could be but MUST have had a wax drip cup as cleaning that filigree would have been a bear !
Nice recovery.

 

[nhbenz]

Table lamp base?

 

[Plug N Play]

Looks like a lamp base ?

 

[nhbenz]

--or part of one maybe I should have said, as I think it sat atop the portion that had feet, allowing the cord to escape.

 

[cambria09]

--or part of one maybe I should have said, as I think it sat atop the portion that had feet, allowing the cord to escape.

Hello nhbenz. That makes more sense than a candle holder...dang probably lost 50-YRs on the age of it though...

Thanks for the reply and Good Luck out there. C9

 

[cambria09]

....Very well could be but MUST have had a wax drip cup as cleaning that filigree would have been a bear !
Nice recovery.

Hello 4x4x4. Agreed re the wax...I think that nhbenz is probably right...lamp base...guess I will have to find the matching base to be sure.

Thanks for the reply and HH. C9

 

[nhbenz]

Thinking further though... with only one hole in the bottom it couldn't have been for a cord, but rather the bolt keeping it together (I think?), so it may have been an oil lamp?

 

[Jedifelix17]

I think it might be the base of a candle stick, the hole in the middle would have housed a candle stub ejector like in picture

 

[villagenut]

Some lamp cables are routed through what we call all thread having a hollow shafts for wire chasing. Just like a hanging light fixture.

 

[nhbenz]

Yes, totally right, of course. I didn't say what I meant ... in my mind I was thinking it might be too small for a threaded tube for the wiring, perhaps only large enough for a bolt. And of course i could be wrong about that.
Jedifelix, the stub ejector is interesting, somehow I'd never seen one.

 

[Plug N Play]

I'd never heard of the stub ejector either.
That might very well be it.

It hit me, what doesn't seem right about the lamp base ?
The idea of a threaded hollow tube seemed like a normal way of running the wires.
Then it struck me ... how does the wire GET to the tube ?
The bottom has a few tiny nicks, but they don't appear to be manufactured openings.
They look like small corrosion nicks ?

When the base sits flat, like on a table or the floor, are any of those nicks large enough to allow the wire to enter ?

I think I want to change my vote to "candle stub ejector" because it seems like a cool idea.

Edit: Another foot piece attached at the bottom, as suggested, would solve the problem, ... so I'm wavering on this one ... candle stub ejector is just too cool, though.