Plates, chalices, candleholders, candle snuffers, bells, knives, incense burners, and such items are obviously made for more than just Circle use. |
They would work on snuffers to fit stands, such as the splendid example shown in Plate IV that bears the mark of this very shop. |
The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. |
A transformation from light to darkness was effected by the agile skill of the candle snuffers. |
Think of the snuffers and spoons and ouches, and bolts and rings and staves, all of pure gold. |
The decoration on snuffers usually consists of roughly cast ornament, but some 18th-century continental examples of steel are finely pierced and chiselled. |