Gas Lighter for Chandeliers

This item at Smith’s Tavern is a long wooden stick with decorative designs with a metal tube and aperture at the end.  It is presumed that the metal tube store fuel with a wick of some sort that would be ignited so as to light candles in a hanging chandelier or other sconces. 

 

If anyone does know more about this type of device, please email the Historical Society with this much needed information.

 

Reference:  None

Catalog Items:

Item T98

Location:	Panel 7
Length:	75 cm
Width:	2 cm
Weight:	214 g