FIG. 49.—GROUP OF RARE CANDLESTICKS, ALMS-DISH, AND EWERS.
(In the Victoria and Albert Museum.)
The lines which some years ago were printed in connection with a concert given in aid of the Glasgow Candlemakers and Tallow workers are appropriate:
"The light of other days is faded,
The reign of tallow's past;
Magnesium and the limelight
Have vanquished 'dips' at last.
And the old lamplighter, too,
Must shortly disappear,
Making way for electric light,