Candlestick made from a section of malt-drying brick with candle butt still in place in one of the holes in the brick. Only one socket is in tact, with the candle in situ, with portions of three or four more sockets where the brick has broken. [MOBB [OPS move] 6/4/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Candlestick made from a section of malt-drying brick with candle butt still in place in one of the holes in the brick. Only one socket is in tact, with the candle in situ, with portions of three or four more sockets where the brick has broken. [MOBB [OPS move] 6/4/2017]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Suffolk Brandon
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Fred Snare; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1899
Date collected: 1899
Acquisition information: Donated: 1932
Materials and processes: Material Wax, Material Pottery, Material Wax, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Recycled, Process Socketed, Process Moulded, Process Woven
Dimensions: Length: max 67 mm, Width: max 56 mm, Height: max 53 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1932.88.1029.1 Other numbers: CE 101 [C E 101]
Research and responses: [1932.88.1029 .3] says 'Perforated drying brick (for drying malt etc) commonly used by the gun-flint makers as candlesticks'. so it seems that a malt brick might be a normal brick [AP 19/07/2006]

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