3. The collector of American glassware finds a very handsome type of candlestick with blown bobèche top and molded base. It is safe to say that these tops were imported from England for use at the Sandwich works. They are only found on the most expensive sticks of the period, and are identical with English candlesticks of the same time, except for the typical Sandwich pedestal and base, fused to the blown bobèche. We know that elaborate lamp bowls were imported and combined with Sandwich glass bases and later joined with brass standards to marble bases, thus it is safe to assume that many of the elaborate candlesticks are in part of similar origin.
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1. Period 1830. Petal top, loop base, scarred bottom, earliest type.
Clear White Opaque White Pale Lavender Combination Blue and White Purple Blue Green Vaselene Yellow Peacock Opalescent Dark Amber—very rare
B. Petal top, plain hollow, six sided molded base, period 1850.
2. Plain top and base varying heights, and colors. This is the commonest type and one that must be most carefully examined by collectors as being most liable to reproduction.
3. Colonial Column, generally found in opalescent glass, period 1859.
A. Opaque two color sticks, blue and white, jade green and white.
4. Blown bobèche top, fused to early pontilled base in steps.
A. Various later bases and tops cut and etched.
Vases were made in many colors of glass at the Sandwich works with bases corresponding to the whale oil lamps. The output was not large as the demand for ornaments at this time was not as great as for practical commodities. See illustration in upper right hand corner.
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The Dolphin Candlesticks are found in seven distinct types. The single base usually has two scars near the hollow base of the Dolphin showing the earliest form of ejection from the mold, a kind of modified pontil. The single base Dolphins while not as delicate in modelling and design are decidedly earlier and much rarer than the double base. The head of the Dolphin is hollow for a greater distance than in the double base sticks showing that these earlier forms were blown into the molds before the stamp machine was in common use. There is also a sunken bobash of glass not found in the double base types.