Robert — they're Bagley, but they're not in the Pontefract Museum online collection, nor in my set of PG photocopies, nor are they in my 2004 edition of Bowey & Parsons.
The style comes in two forms. Singles like yours, and triples on a horizontally orientated diamond support with candleholder rings at each of the upper three corners. I've had these through my hands on five or six occasions, and they are very fast sellers as Christine indicated above. I've had them in two patterns, just the one pair like yours for which I don't know the pattern name or number, and also in the Art Deco 1333 Wyndham pattern, more easily found in my experience. The best I ever had was a complete frosted pink 1333 Wyndham garniture set — a triple garnished by two singles, which sold immediately despite a very high price.
The question remains as to whether the metalwork was Bagley or not. Bagley is known to have produced and supplied special glass for the metalbashers — for example the bayonet version of Andromeda was supplied to Leek's of Birmingham for their novelty lamp, and epergne flutes were supplied to Zimmerman for mounting on their leaf supports. Bagley also had metalwork made for their own products like table lamps. So both scenarios are possibilities, but I think it much more likely that Bagley had the metalwork for these candlesticks made for them, and sold the candlesticks complete. Note that a toast set shown on p.49 of my Bowey & Parsons utilises the same flattened chrome rod, as do some handles for cake plates, as does an epergne very similar to the triple candlestick but with a weighted chrome base
here. We won't know for certain unless further information emerges.
One further possibility is that these candlesticks were produced as an exclusive for just one large client, which would help explain both their nonappearance in Bagley archives and their scarcity.
Nice find — I wish I'd got to them first.
Bernard C.
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