Antiques YOU can buy for £30! 150 Year Old Candlesticks. Ridiculously Cheap! 

I would love to have antique room one day, oil based art and some nice candle sticks.

Dear David Harper, great video yet again. Thank you for the education AND entertainment. Well done!

Fascinating, thanks for this David.

You're totally right about how underappreciad candlesticks are

I really like you! Love to watch your videos!

Brilliant video, really learned a lot. Would love to see more like this,. Thank you David

Wow, beautiful candlesticks!! Can't believe you got them for that price. Thanks for the advice...

What an interesting video, thank you.

Thank you David - good advice - when they start charging all those electric cars and there's grid overload - your followers will all be sorted !

Great video David. I love candles.

good. have to trim the bottom of the modern candle to fit the antique sconce. looks like the bee hive stick is a marriage to the older base.

it is in the hands of Mr Joyce and he has two sons - I did drawing work for him - lovely man please note no idea of costs etc but maybe interested what would be and the process involved

Yes will do - because of covid the car boot sales where stopped in Ireland last year - and the console top en is that the Connemara marble ???🥰🥰🥰

Thank you for the helpful information recently purchase a holder from North Hampton infact it had a push up stick but the stem was detached from the well so I heated the holder allowing the cast wax to melt out and poured white plaster into the base opening covering the push button it made the stem ridgid again !!!

Thank you , you are a gem

Do you have any antique related questions? Fire away!

Bonkers is the word! Even Georgian seamed candlesticks can be picked up in this price range if you keep your eyes peeled.

I bought one today in the YMCA in Norwich for £2. It is heavy, a little taller than your beautiful pair, has a bee hive and the yoke beneath for pushing up the candle. However, it looks more primitive, and it's a little taller, i wonder if it was a church candle? Anyway, thank you for your passion, it is very inspiring. I will always keep this little piece of history. PS. We had a pair of very old brass candles. They were considered ancient a hundred years ago. We lived in the country and weren't wealthy, neighbours would borrow the candlesticks when they had dead relatives to wake. The candlesticks would light the dead. If candlesticks could talk!

I think it is and the colour is right - you know that they are still operating today and i think if you email this picture to them in Connemara they can probably confirm it for you - they did export all over the world you see - sometimes this man was invited to America to confirm - this will add value to this piece of course🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

I've looked for genuine old candlesticks here more than once, but never seen anything that old. Never seen a push-up at all. That's one thing that might sell for more here in the USA than in the UK. Another topic - what was that nice lump of wood they were sitting on? It looked to be set with a porcelain courting scene. (I call 'em all Fake Fragonards. They were everwhere here in the 1950s.)

Did someone mention the honeycomb decoration above the bee hive?

Hey up..I bumped into ya at Nottm racecourse few yrs bck..looking at a writing slope I was gonna put glass in.... I thought yu were Drew Pritchard.

I will have those for 30 quid. Unbelievable

... and as a deadly weapon too !!!

Where do you recommend buying these, and other antiques, online? Would you trust Ebay? Also, what type, era and country would you recommend (e.g. brass, Victorian, English) for a basic but stylish candlestick? I'm guessing that further back than 19th century gets too expensive for most people. And that French would be more decorative but more expensive. Thanks. It's a pity they eventually damage whatever is in the room (wallpaper, chairs, etc), from all the smoke particles/wax and paraffin deposits. But a good idea for everyone to have for emergencies.

Are you sure, that all of the old ones are push ups? If not, I would like to see an example without. If it is not too much trouble.

I appreciate David Harper's enthusiasm, but he is wrong on several points. Genuine antique candlesticks most often do not have a push-mechanism through the base and stem. They are also often light in weight. The heaviness of a candlestick is not a good way to determine authenticity. 18th and early 19th century candlesticks were seamed; that is, they were cast in two halves vertically and then soldered together. This made it possible to have thinner castings and to have a more decorative design. To my eye, the pair of candlesticks shown in this video are overly ornate, without harmonious proportions between the various sections of the stem and the base. As Mr. Harper suggested, antique candlesticks are inexpensive because they were (and are) so common. I suggest going slow when shopping. 17th and 18th century candlesticks of good quality are not as inexpensive as 19th century ones, but they are often more beautiful and still moderately priced. With some persistence, a careful shopper will be able to find relatively inexpensive candlesticks that are lovelier than the ones shown here.

Candle light is romantic because you can't see how ugly the other person is with that pathetic light lol