CLICK IMAGE FOR LARGER VIEW ITEM #: (OP), 5" w. X 12 3/8" h.

Pewter or Dark Antique

Candle Only -$125

The Landis Valley Museum in Pennsylvania is home to the sconce from which our Old Pennsylvania originates.  The same style was also found at the Moravian Church in Lititz, Pennsylvania.

The design at the top of the sconce face is reproduced using a creasing stake, lead cake, raising hammer, and two hand-tools of our own design.  Solid forming wires are turned into the vertical edges of the sconce face, and into the edges of the main supporting arm.

A single bead is formed next to the wired edges of the sconce face using a 1700s type hand-swage.  

(See above photo.)  Both supporting arms protrude through the sconce back for extra sturdiness.

As an example of the methods of the early craftsmen, the elegant simplicity of the Old Pennsylvania's candle drip pan or bobeche, can be deceiving.  The methods used by the original craftsmen, to create its form and structural integrity, is extremely labor intensive.  At the Stone House we appreciate the rewards of these techniques and take pride in applying them.  We make the drip pan from a flat hand-cut piece of tin.  It is given a concave shape using raising hammers, and old wooden hollowing block made from a dried hardwood tree stump.  It is then finished or smoothed by turning it upside down on a dome head stake and striking it with a planishing hammer (as shown in the photo).  

Starting as a small circle in the middle, the tin is "worked" toward the outer edge.

This entire process, from start to finish, literally requires several hundred hammer blows