Candle box
Category
Brassware
Date
1749
Materials
Brass
Measurements
142 x 183 x 84 mm
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 545480
Summary
Rectangular brass candle box. Arched back plate with hanging hole and embossed flower head flanked with leaves within beaded border, sloping hinged lid embossed with beaded border and beaded text 'Leyden 1749'. Sides with embossed flower heads within beaded borders. Paper sticker reads - 35/- candle box (note) also, Leydon a university town 1749 (?)
Provenance
An item from The Pamela Ward Collection left to the National Trust in Miss Ward's will in 1994.
Marks and inscriptions
Leyden a university town (sticker)