Antiques YOU can buy for £30! 150 Year Old Candlesticks. Ridiculously Cheap!

[@thelasvegaskid]

I would love to have antique room one day, oil based art and some nice candle sticks.

[@skiracer]

Dear David Harper, great video yet again. Thank you for the education AND entertainment. Well done!

[@ked5081]

good. have to trim the bottom of the modern candle to fit the antique sconce. looks like the bee hive stick is a marriage to the older base.

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

It looks that way, but it’s just an old solder repair. D

[@ked5081]

@@DavidHarperAntiques good. the bee hive are all the same, the bee hive size according to stem length. made in england?

[@olgaroche2929]

I really like you! Love to watch your videos!

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

Thank you so much!

[@Neil2022]

Fascinating, thanks for this David.

[@helenabiesma5560]

it is in the hands of Mr Joyce and he has two sons - I did drawing work for him - lovely man please note no idea of costs etc but maybe interested what would be and the process involved

[@helenabiesma5560]

yes try it - they do a lot of business in rhe USA - but it has a very dark green patches and yellow veins running trough it which I believe is a Connemara special feature

[@-The-Darkside]

You're totally right about how underappreciad candlesticks are

[@robertadowns217]

Wow, beautiful candlesticks!! Can't believe you got them for that price. Thanks for the advice...

[@helenabiesma5560]

Yes will do - because of covid the car boot sales where stopped in Ireland last year - and the console top en is that the Connemara marble ???🥰🥰🥰

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

It’s has the right green colour, but it’s continental, so I doubt it is?

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

@@CS88754 Hi, yes it is. I’ve just put it on eBay. Let me know and happy to do a deal. Here’s the link to it. Or contact me through my website. Cheers, David www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fine-George-III-English-Travelling-Campaign-Chest-Circa-1790-/144352255443?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m2548.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

[@sallyhinkley1177]

Thank you David - good advice - when they start charging all those electric cars and there's grid overload - your followers will all be sorted !

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

yep, get ready!

[@pauldennehy104]

Brilliant video, really learned a lot. Would love to see more like this,. Thank you David

[@pauldaviesantiques1556]

Bonkers is the word! Even Georgian seamed candlesticks can be picked up in this price range if you keep your eyes peeled.

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

Very true …and bonkers!

[@eddieharris6004]

The best 18th cent seamed brass sticks can still easily make 3 figures, but yes average late georgian /victorian sticks are good value and practical......even romantic? 😘

[@andrewurbanowski1666]

Thank you for the helpful information recently purchase a holder from North Hampton infact it had a push up stick but the stem was detached from the well so I heated the holder allowing the cast wax to melt out and poured white plaster into the base opening covering the push button it made the stem ridgid again !!!

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

Brilliant and great to hear, thank you for watching

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

Do you have any antique related questions? Fire away!

[@skiracer]

When are you bringing your family to Colorado to visit us? Snow is deep here now.

[@annamichaelsdottir5834]

Great video David. I love candles.

[@celiawhelan5616]

What an interesting video, thank you.

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

My pleasure

[@connoroleary591]

I bought one today in the YMCA in Norwich for £2. It is heavy, a little taller than your beautiful pair, has a bee hive and the yoke beneath for pushing up the candle. However, it looks more primitive, and it's a little taller, i wonder if it was a church candle? Anyway, thank you for your passion, it is very inspiring. I will always keep this little piece of history. PS. We had a pair of very old brass candles. They were considered ancient a hundred years ago. We lived in the country and weren't wealthy, neighbours would borrow the candlesticks when they had dead relatives to wake. The candlesticks would light the dead. If candlesticks could talk!

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

Candlesticks have been privy to so much! Yours today is an absolute bargain, well done and thanks for watching

[@mickfromaustralia902]

Did someone mention the honeycomb decoration above the bee hive?

[@donnamarx7591]

Thank you , you are a gem

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

Thank you Donna

[@donnamarx7591]

You are so welcome. I have been researching for days this antique candle stick I picked up . It's beautiful . But I can't figure it out .

[@helenabiesma5560]

I think it is and the colour is right - you know that they are still operating today and i think if you email this picture to them in Connemara they can probably confirm it for you - they did export all over the world you see - sometimes this man was invited to America to confirm - this will add value to this piece of course🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

Thank you Helena, great info D

[@YANDEX30V]

Hey up..I bumped into ya at Nottm racecourse few yrs bck..looking at a writing slope I was gonna put glass in.... I thought yu were Drew Pritchard.

[@OriginalNethead]

I've looked for genuine old candlesticks here more than once, but never seen anything that old. Never seen a push-up at all. That's one thing that might sell for more here in the USA than in the UK. Another topic - what was that nice lump of wood they were sitting on? It looked to be set with a porcelain courting scene. (I call 'em all Fake Fragonards. They were everwhere here in the 1950s.)

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

I know what you mean. This one is a marble topped continental gilt and walnut side table. Around 1880 in date

[@Neil2022]

I will have those for 30 quid. Unbelievable

[@Joe-os3vp]

Where do you recommend buying these, and other antiques, online? Would you trust Ebay? Also, what type, era and country would you recommend (e.g. brass, Victorian, English) for a basic but stylish candlestick? I'm guessing that further back than 19th century gets too expensive for most people. And that French would be more decorative but more expensive. Thanks. It's a pity they eventually damage whatever is in the room (wallpaper, chairs, etc), from all the smoke particles/wax and paraffin deposits. But a good idea for everyone to have for emergencies.

[@Joe-os3vp]

I'm wondering now whether candelabras would be better value as one would have multiple candles. Maybe the ones you have in the video take thicker candles than candelabras though.

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

@@Joe-os3vp eBay is fine for buying antique candlesticks. Just buy from sellers with good feedback. However, your local antiques shops/antiques centres will certainly have them!

[@Joe-os3vp]

@@DavidHarperAntiques Thanks! I just found some good ones.

[@michaelalpert5019]

I appreciate David Harper's enthusiasm, but he is wrong on several points. Genuine antique candlesticks most often do not have a push-mechanism through the base and stem. They are also often light in weight. The heaviness of a candlestick is not a good way to determine authenticity. 18th and early 19th century candlesticks were seamed; that is, they were cast in two halves vertically and then soldered together. This made it possible to have thinner castings and to have a more decorative design. To my eye, the pair of candlesticks shown in this video are overly ornate, without harmonious proportions between the various sections of the stem and the base. As Mr. Harper suggested, antique candlesticks are inexpensive because they were (and are) so common. I suggest going slow when shopping. 17th and 18th century candlesticks of good quality are not as inexpensive as 19th century ones, but they are often more beautiful and still moderately priced. With some persistence, a careful shopper will be able to find relatively inexpensive candlesticks that are lovelier than the ones shown here.

[@0210rokvist]

Are you sure, that all of the old ones are push ups? If not, I would like to see an example without. If it is not too much trouble.

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

Not all antique ones are push ups, but almost all push ups are antique!

[@mglennmyers]

... and as a deadly weapon too !!!

[@asahearts1]

Candle light is romantic because you can't see how ugly the other person is with that pathetic light lol

[@DavidHarperAntiques]

It can help!