CANDLE SNUFFERS

A pair of primitive wrought-iron candle snuffers, 17th-/18th century, 200mm

A late George III steel snuffers stand on turned balustroid stem with acorn finial, curved supports and carrying handle, on tripod base with pad feet, stamped under the handle with maker's name "DOWLER", 176mm high, with a pair of contemporary steel snuffers with spherical box and spring shutter, 174mm long.

For a similar stand, also with snuffer having a spherical box, see Allemagne, Henri Rene, Decorative Antique Ironwork, Dover, 1968, Plate 35, centre row, right.

An early 18th-century brass snuffers stand with snuffers, about 220mm long (overall), each part marked

A pair of first-half 18th-century brass snuffers with cylindrical box, on a contemporary stand of figure-of-eight form 

A pair of first-half 18th-century brass douters, on a contemporary stand of figure-of-eight form 

A rare pair of late 18th-century steel combined snuffers and douters , of narrow form to fit in the stem slot of a chamber candlestick

A pair of late 18th-century brass snuffers , of narrow form to fit in the stem slot of a chamber candlestick

A pair of early 19th-century steel snuffers , of narrow form to fit in the stem slot of a chamber candlestick

A rare pair of late 18th-century paktong douters

A mid 18th-century pair of steel and silver snuffers, designed to fit within the stem slot of a chamber candlestick, with location pin, 130mm long

A mid 18th-century pair of steel snuffers with D-form shallow reeded box, the handles of C- and S-scrolled design with plain silver bows, on three silver balustroid feet, 182mm long

A pair of late 18th-century steel snuffers, the handles of double navette form with bright-cut engraved decoration, on three feet, 156mm long

An extremely rare pair of mid to late 18th-century miniature steel snuffers with reeded D-form box, S-form scroll handles and oval bows, on three feet, 109mm long 

A pair of Late George III steel snuffers, with rectangular box with chamfered edges and scroll-form handles having decorative cut-steel beaded rosettes

A pair of George III steel snuffers, the cylindrical box having a pagoda-form cover with beaded edge, the hinge inscribed "UPON AN IMPROVED PRINCIPLE" with scalloped quatrefoil scroll handles and oval bows, on three ball feet, 152mm long

Snuffers with a similar box, and so inscribed, named to Bright & Sons are recorded. See Wolton, Martin Fry, Candle Snuffers, 2000, page 27, Figure 29.

A pair of George III steel snuffers, the cylindrical box with domed cover, the hinge inscribed "UPON AN IMPROVED PRINCIPLE", with straight beaded handles and shield-form bows, on three balustroid feet, 159mm long

A rare pair of George III steel snuffers in the neo-classical style, the navette-form box having a cover inset with a Bilston enamelled oval portrait of a young woman within  bright-cut borders, the handle bows similarly decorated, 180mm long.

For similar snuffers, see Allemagne, as above, Plate 336, top row, centre.

A pair of George III steel snuffers, with foliate decorated handles and shield-form bows, on a black japanned toleware tray, gilt-enriched.

A late Georgian brass snuffers tray of waisted form, with plain base and pierced gallery