A pair of early seventeenth century brass church bench candle sticks.

Two candlesticks with underneath a brass pan. High 8,5 cm. Diameter pan 11 cm. The candlesticks consist of a loose pan and a screw in candlestick, the end of which consists of a hand filed 3,5 cm long screw. In the seventeenth century well to do church members owned a bench. In order to have light for reading the Bible, they drilled a hole in the bench and screwed a candlestick in it. The fact that the screws are filed by hand indicates their age. The were made (and used) around 1600.