candle mold

Name/Title

candle mold

Entry/Object ID

100376

Scope and Content

(specifically a multi-tube taper candle mold, likely 6 or 8 tubes). Function: Used in 18th- and 19th-century households to cast standardized taper candles from melted animal tallow or beeswax. Brown Inventory Robt O Thompson Nov 6, 1927 A Candle dip frame Originally property of the late Edmund Seely owner of "American Star"