A pair of Adams style silver candlesticks, with urn shaped nozzles, removable sconces of serpentine outline, tapering fluted columns raised from conforming shaped bases. Presentation engraved: St Joseph's Orphanage, Upper Hutt from Father Leo Daly. Chaplain to the Forces NZEF 1916. Sheffield 1914 by Walker & Hall, height 11.42 in.
- Sconce - A light attached to a wall. Originally a candle holder that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket and sometimes with a reflective back plate, but now applied to an electric light that has been inspired by that design.
In recent times the word has also come into use to desribe the candle holders on a candelabra.
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