Brass and Steel Stick with Fancy Castellated Thimble
Detail.
Detail
Thimble Stamping
Husson Stick with Removable Thimble.made by Knippenberg Mfg. Co.
Semi-Fancy Filed Stick with Angled Thumb Lever
Filed Stick
Stick with Tall Thimble and Fancy Thumb Lever
Gang Stamp on Two Sides of Spike
Stick Gang Stamped E.A. Sherwood
Dated Semi-Fancy Stick
Thimble Detail
Dated and Initialed Stick
Thimble Detail
Unusual Holed Handle and Thimble Stick
Engraving Detail on Handle
Engraving Detail on Thimble and Thumb Lever
Stick with Fancy Engraving
Filing Detail
Filing Detail
Large Fancy Filed Stick
Thumb Lever and Filing Detail
Fancy Filed Stick with Holed Oval Thumb.Lever
Thumb Lever and Filing Detail
Decorative Detail
Large Fancy Stick with Pick Thumb Lever and Heart in Handle Neck
Semi-Fancy Initialed Stick
Miners' Candleholders were used predominantly in western hardrock mines and in the copper and iron mines of the Lake Superior Region. The western candleholders differed from the Lake Superior variety in the type of hook they had, the Lake Superior type were made to be worn on the miner's cap with a tighter radius hook, while the western type was not and had a wider radius hook.They were used from the 1860s into the early 20th Century.
