A Lot of Twelve Candle Snippers
ALL TWELVE FOR ONLY $300
The best four (9 thru 12) are illustrated last.

Click here for a naughty late 18th century etching showing a candle snipper in use.

  1) Iron snips marked "W. B. Barnard 1864"

2) No spring - hallmarked

3) No spring - missing legs

4) Single spring


  5) Single spring - hallmarked

6) Single spring - silver plate

7) Single spring

8) Guillotine "patent"



  9) Guillotine - spring broken

10) Guillotine with back door marked "W R Gilbert Patent"

11) Guillotine with spring loaded back door
marked "E Bagnard 1810"(?)

12) Unusual cylindrical guillotine, back door
marked "Upon An Improved Principal"