Candlestick
- Object Name:
- Candlestick
- Object ID:
- 1922.009.12.3
- Creator:
- Durgin, William B. Company
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1908
- Description:
- Candlestick with bobeche insert; one of a set of six. Silver. Originally electrified; cord removed before 1922. Double urn-shape body on round pedestal base. Decorated with bands of reeding on edge of bobeche, at top of urn, and around the base. In upper case block letters "NEW HAMPSHIRE" is at the top of the lower urn. The body is decorated with a state seal and a navy seal in laurel wreaths as well as two laurel swags. The state seal shows a ship on rafters with workers in the foreground and a half sun in the background. The navy seal includes a spread-wing eagle in front of a ship surrounded with the words in upper case sans-serif letters: "NAVY DEPARTMENT / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA". There is a melamine (or other composition) slab inserted in the base along with electrical cord and cardboard disk. The slab appears to have two copper electrical contacts. There are two divots on the interior of the base ring for electrical contacts. Inserted in the top of the candlestick is a threaded liner for a bulb. Stamped on top of candlestick rim is the number "1". There is something stamped on the bottom of the bobeche which is illegible. Scratched on the bottom of the melamine insert is the number "7" as well as the number "1".
OBJECT REGISTER:
A. Candlestick
B. Bobeche - Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- H-10.625 Dia-4.75 inches
- Provenance:
- The U.S.S. New Hampshire was built by the New York Shipbuilding Company and commissioned on March 19, 1908. There were 41 officers and 809 men on board. In 1907 the state legislature appropriated $6,000 for the design and manufacture of a silver service. The William B. Durgin Company of Concord, NH made the service and it was presented to the U.S.S. New Hampshire by Gov. Charles M. Floyd on August 8, 1908 at Portsmouth. The silver service consists of 72 pieces.
The U.S.S. New Hampshire was decommissioned in 1921 as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty and sold for scrap in November 1923. - Credit Line:
- On Loan from the United States Navy Department
- Subjects:
- U.S.S. New Hampshire, Naval ships, Nationalism
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