£300
A rare wooden rushlight holder, made completely in oak, and signed by the maker, Shropshire/Montgomeryshire borders, circa 1850
Having a plain cleft stick lever-action holder, with pin-hinge, the flat-top and 'facetted conical base stamped W G Bound to underside, height 24.5cm
Provenance: Former Graham Cutts Collection
Literature: See Robert Ashley, The Rushlight and Related Holders (2001), p. 232, pl.194, for a very similar example, again by William Bound (1829-1890). The author notes wooden rushlight holders of any form very rarely survive, compared to forged examples they are more easily broken or discarded as worthless, few examples remain
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