CANDLESTICKS
1. Period 1830. Petal top, loop base, scarred bottom, earliest type.
- Clear White
- Opaque White
- Pale Lavender
- Combination Blue and White
- Purple
- Blue
- Green
- Vaselene Yellow
- Peacock
- Opalescent
- Dark Amber—very rare
A. Plain top looped base.
B. Petal top, plain hollow, six sided molded base, period 1850.
C. Petal top, round base.
2. Plain top and base varying heights, and colors. This is the commonest type and one that must be most carefully examined by collectors as being most liable to reproduction.
3. Colonial Column, generally found in opalescent glass, period 1859.
A. Opaque two color sticks, blue and white, jade green and white.
4. Blown bobèche top, fused to early pontilled base in steps.
A. Various later bases and tops cut and etched.
B. Opaque white glass sticks.
Vases were made in many colors of glass at the Sandwich works with bases corresponding to the whale oil lamps. The output was not large as the demand for ornaments at this time was not as great as for practical commodities. See illustration in upper right hand corner.