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Virginia Metal Crafters. Hanley likes to pick up smaller decor items from this brand when she comes across them. “They made so many beautiful brass goods ranging from sconces, candlesticks, door ...
Brass or marble bookends are great thrift shop finds, interior designer Anastasia Casey, founder of IDCO Studio, shares. Look for more modern or simple shapes like solid cubes or spheres, she ...
The Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company (1852–1940) was formed in Meriden, Connecticut, and over the years produced Art Brass tables, call bells, candlestick holders, clocks, match safes, lamps, architectural grilles, railings, etc. Overall the company patented 238 designs and mechanical devices. "By the 1890s, the Bradley and Hubbard ...
Weighted sterling or weighted silver refers to items such as candlesticks, candy dishes, salt and pepper shakers, and trophies that have a heavy thick weighted foot or pedestal base, in order to keep them steady and not easy to topple over. [1] Wax, plaster, copper, or lead is used in the base to give the item strength, stability, and heft.
A candlestick is a device used to hold a candle in place. Candlesticks have a cup or a spike ("pricket") or both to keep the candle in place. Candlesticks are sometimes called "candleholders". Before the proliferation of electricity, candles were carried between rooms using a chamberstick, a short candlestick with a pan to catch dripping wax. [1]
PureWow's editors and writers have spent more than a decade shopping online, digging through sales and putting our home goods, beauty finds, wellness picks and more through the wringer—all to ...
Nickel silver, maillechort, German silver, [1] argentan, [1] new silver, [1] nickel brass, [2] albata, [3] or alpacca [4] is a cupronickel (copper with nickel) alloy with the addition of zinc. The usual formulation is 60% copper, 20% nickel and 20% zinc. [5] Nickel silver does not contain the element silver. It is named for its silvery ...
In fact, a meaningful gift sometimes can barely cost anything, but be something that sparks communication, deepens your bond or simply means something to the person who's getting it. #10 It wasn ...