Americana & Folk Art
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Peggy McClard Antiques Americana & Folk Art |
| A nice 7" tall tin hogscraper signed "Bill" on the penny tab for
adjusting the candle height. The tab moves smoothly and the chair
hanging tab remains. The bottom wears traces of early black paint
and the hand-wrought screw and bolt authenticate its 19th century
beginnings. These sturdy candlesticks were used throughout the
first half of the 19th century. Hung from the back of a high
backed chair, they cast light over the sitter's shoulder to aid in
reading or guide the nimble fingers of a lady working at her needlework.
These candlesticks were often called "pork barrel" candlesticks because
the lady of the house could take this candlestick down to the cellar and
hang it from the pork or pickle barrel while she cut her family a piece
of the salted pork. The name "hogscraper" comes from the
similarity in shape to a sheet iron tool make for scraping the bristles
off of a newly butchered hog. When I began collecting, it was
thought that these candlesticks actually doubled as hogscrapers, but I
think conventional thought today is that the bottoms are too small and
too flat to have worked well for this purpose. Still, they are a
necessity for a collection of Americana and finding a signed one is a
real plus. (#4469) $325 |
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