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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 372307, member: 5833&quot;]The addition of your perfect little stick really does seem to complete him.</p><p><br /></p><p>While it certainly could hold candles of the right size (what is the diameter of the holes?), my gut feeling is that the original suggestion that it relates to smoking is correct.&nbsp; Something you use to light a number of other candles or gas jets would be long &amp; skinny, like a <a href="http://www.oldandinteresting.com/rushlights.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.oldandinteresting.com/rushlights.aspx" rel="nofollow">rushlight</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can find pieces with a degree of similarity, but so far not with all those individual openings.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/36424793_majolica-figural-match-striker-smoking-set-in-the-form" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/36424793_majolica-figural-match-striker-smoking-set-in-the-form" rel="nofollow">For example</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/648/70836/36424793_1_x.jpg?version=1429570531&amp;width=1600&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Think auctioneer is wrong about this being an American cowboy; another one that brings Garibaldi to mind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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