Topic: Paperweight / candle holder

[donaldf]

Hi All

can anyone help me with the origin and approx date of this paperweight / candle holder?

thanks

Don

[tropdevin]

Hi Don

I have had a couple of very similar paperweights in the past, but I ended up giving them to the charity shop, so I do not have images (doh!).  Based on Peter von Brackel's books, I had concluded that they were most likely from Bohemia / Czechoslovakia, late 19th century. That said, I would not rule out the Belgium / Alsace area.

Alan 

[donaldf]

Thanks Alan. It actually belongs to a friend who was interested in its origin and I knew where to get an answer. It is old as the hole would not take a modern/recent European candle, so would have been used with the old tallow candles which were of a smaller diameter... I told him to look after it, as we may be needing candles in the future...
thanks
Don

[Nick77]

As the hole seems to open out rather than being parallel sided is it perhaps an inkwell rather than a candle holder?

Nick