Antique Miners Candle Holder / Miners Light / Mining Tool

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We have for sale an Antique Wrought Iron Miners Candle Holder Sticking Tommy or Tommy Stick.
This is a cast-iron candle holder that was used by miners to provide their working light. Before electric lamps and carbide lamps, candles were used to provide light in some mines for most of the 19th century. This candle holder has a spike that would have been driven into a framing timber or suitable crack and a hook that could be hung on a nail or the miners hat also set upon an appropriate surface near the miner’s work space. (Info from the Smithsonian)
Will look great on your fireplace mantel.

Found in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Circa; 1800
Measures; 9” long
Condition; Very good, Candle not included


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