It’s a rainy Friday afternoon at my country house on the beautiful, still natural Upper Delaware River, and I’m preparing the Shabbos candlesticks. I open a new box of fresh, pearly white candles and ...

Items made of old brass have a special gleam that catches and holds one’s attention. Sadly, inherited old lamps, candlesticks, teapots, trays and suchlike are too often unwanted by later generations ...

At the start of most garage sales, you'll find the following: holiday decorations, mismatched glassware and ugly brass-plated candlesticks. Guess what's left over at the end of the garage sale? The ...

THESE days, brass candlesticks offer very good value for money. There are masses of them around, as candle power was the main source of lighting in this country for centuries, and more of them were ...