[TheForge] Re: 18th century courting candle

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May I address question 3?  Who is your customer?  An interior decorator, John 
Q. Public, a reenactor, or a museum?  Answer might not be the same for all 4.

Some of them might ask you for documentation that there was, indeed, 
something known as a courting candle in the 18th century, or if you've in 
fact actually produced your average everyday adjustable candlestick.

(What, you've never dealt with a curator before?  ;-)  )

(and for the record, I don't know whether they were being called courting 
candles in the 18th century or not...know they weren't in the 17th though)

jerry V

<< ok lets take this one step further.  lets say you make a 18th cen.  
courting
 candle 1 you use mild steel , propane forge, arc weld the pan. On the second
 for some reason you dig out the coal forge and wrought Iron and make it
 using only the tools of the 18th cen.  when done they look  exactly the
 same. Now you put them on the table  and in walks a customer.
 1) do you sell them for the same price?
 2) if not how do you explain the difference? (they are both repos)
 3) do you think that the customer could give a rats ass?
 Dan Scheid >>