Gold Rush History Miners Candlestick Holder

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Gold Rush History Miners Candlestick Holder

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I picked this Wrought Iron Sticking Tommy Miner's Candlestick holder up at an Antique shop stamped Cleancut on it and I'm looking for more information on it Thanks any little bit of information helps .
Miners Candle holder that was used by miners to provide their working light. Before electric lamps and carbide lamps, candles were used to provide light in some mines for most of the 19th century.
This candle holder has a spike that would have been driven into a framing timber or suitable crack and a hook that could be set upon an appropriate surface near the miner’s work space. Miners' Candle holders were used predominantly in western hardrock mines and in the copper and iron mines of the Lake Superior Region.
The western candle holders differed from the Lake Superior variety in the type of hook they had, the Lake Superior type were made to be worn on the miner's cap with a tighter radius hook, while the western type was not and had a wider radius hook.
They were used from the 1860s into the early 20th Century. Wrought Iron Sticking Tommy Miner's Candlestick​
 

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There was a museum at one in Georgetown Colorado that had a pretty extensive collection of miners candlesticks, but it's gone now. Some were very embellished with engraving, made probably for that eccentric miner who needed something with a little extra in order to personalize his identity and pride.
 

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Another thing that's highly collectible in the way of old mining tools is this crescent curved single jack hammer, known as the Dego. They are rare and you gotta believe there'd be a few heads somewhere out there waiting to be discovered.
 

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