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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lecollectionneur, post: 403378, member: 8569&quot;]Thanks for your research, this is a good example for first versions, I have a nice one in painted wood which is very shallow too, the later ones as the two examples are made more for shorter wood or rool paper with something flammable or simply soft wood, this technique was used as a light in swiss in the 1600 with wood first and after with cord put in resin and hold in a steel sort of candlestick.</p><p>In the french litterature you found often the fidibus holder in the 19th century, and in a Hercule Poirot TV film I&#039;ve heard it use this word which is late but seems to be used in Enland at that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the terms I use to qualify items, they are not what I use about technology but language used by museums, collectors, auctioneers, when I want to qualify technically something, it&#039;s different and I make it precisely, what is now called precision foundry, in french fonderie de précision, is not the subject, because antique items can be of relative poor quality when the original form was at the end of his life, dimensions have no importance at the time, with complicated pieces like the soldier each one was assembled and adjusted time after time and it is no interchangeability(what a word…) from one to another.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Just another thing, I&#039;m here to have a contact with other (passionate)collectors, not for making problems and in the past as a photographer I was of a number of forum especially in french, then only staying in english on dyxum where members are quiet and speak only about photography, your forum seems to be a good quality place but I&#039;m only here for antiques, and have no need for social contact or problems with people![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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