18th CENTURY ANTIQUE PRIMITIVE EARLY LIGHTING OLD WROUGHT IRON CANDLE STICK SPIKE COLONIAL ERA / REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD. circa mid to late 1700s. originally used as a mobile lighting device to be pounded into anything wood where and when needed. a wonderfully simplistic necessity of the times. has unique drip pan. measures 4 1/4'' high by 2'' wide by 3 3/4'' deep.