Colonial Candle Snuffer

[Relicific]

Yesterday while drinking a cup of Joe started reading Bill Dancy’s
excellent book,”Discovering Virginia’s colonial artifacts.”
Was on chapter 16,page 210, and saw a photograph of a Candle
snuffer box and bingo made the connection to my whatisit find I made
this past Summer.
Couldn’t figure out what I had until now.
And according to Bill,very few of these Candle snuffers/wick trimmer
Seem to turn up.
Added a photo of what they looked like with the scissor attachment.

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Awesome relic find, congratulations!

 

[relic nut]

That's a great find! I found a peice of one a couple years ago. It was the part your finger goes through. Thought it was a ring at first. It was ID here on t-net. Congratulations!

 

[WannaDig3687]

Sweet! I'm glad you were able to solve your own what is it! Got to give you that happy happy.

 

[CRUSADER]

I agree, they don't seem to turn up here either. I may have had a couple of finger loops??

 

[vpnavy]

Nice Snuffer Relicific. Thanks for sharing...

 

[Relicific]

Awesome relic find, congratulations!

Thank you

 

[Relicific]

That's a great find! I found a peice of one a couple years ago. It was the part your finger goes through. Thought it was a ring at first. It was ID here on t-net. Congratulations!

Thanks man
Yes it’s an odd relic.

 

[Relicific]

Sweet! I'm glad you were able to solve your own what is it! Got to give you that happy happy.

Thanks

 

[Relicific]

I agree, they don't seem to turn up here either. I may have had a couple of finger loops??

Yes it’s odd cause almost every household had one
if these Snuffers,but few seem to show up.

 

[Relicific]

Nice Snuffer Relicific. Thanks for sharing...

Thank you Vpnavy..

 

[Aureus]

That's one cool relic. Congratulations on the find!

 

[Relicific]

That's one cool relic. Congratulations on the find!

Thanks Aureus

 

[against the wind]

Great solve,,
Dan's book is a valuable resource to have in your library.

 

[thrifty76now]

A very unusual item for sure.Great recovery.

 

[Evolution]

Very interesting colonial artifact. Congrats!

 

[Scrappy]

Very very nice. I wonder how many have been tossed by careless detectorists that didn’t know what it was.

 

[Truth]

Very rare making it so so beautiful. Congratulations

 

[Relicific]

Great solve,,
Dan's book is a valuable resource to have in your library.

Thanks and yes It's a great book.

 

[Relicific]

A very unusual item for sure.Great recovery.

Thank you