Our Santa Claus Novelty snuffer is 11½ inches long. This cute, Whimsical Santa Claus snuffer is perfect for putting out any candle or just as a Christmas decoration. Santa is the “snuffer”, he has his traditional red coat and hat with white trim and glitter on the trim. He has a very kindly smile showing through his full white beard. In Santas right hand he holds a small Christmas tree with glitter and red ornaments on it and a gold star atop it. The handle portion of the snuffer is Santas toy bag. This toy bag is green with a lovable teddy bear and a present wrapped in red with a gold ribbon bow sticking out the top of Santas bag. Select this link to view our Christmas candleholders.
Candles
Candles are an item usually made of wax or a similar type material that is burned to give light. When a candle is lit, wax melted by the flame is drawn up a wick that is made of cotton, paper, or a combination of them. This liquid vaporizes and the gas then burns, producing light. Candles come in many colors, scents, shapes, and sizes. Candles have been used for thousands of years. People have made candles out of many types of things, including bayberry wax, beeswax, paraffin, spermaceti, stearin, and tallow. People can create candles by hand, usually by dipping the wick repeatedly into liquid wax, pouring liquid wax into a mold that contains a suspended wick, or rolling sheets of softened wax around the wick. Candle manufacturers now use machines to do all this that produce several dozen to several hundred candles at a time.
Before electricity was readily available in the early 1900’s, people used candles a source of artificial light. Today though candles are used for a variety purposes, such as birthday celebrations, holiday and home decorations, and for religious services. Many people today enjoy making candles as a hobby. Select this link to view our unique Christmas ornaments.
Candle Power
Candle power is a standard for measuring the intensity of light. The first recorded measurement of this kind was seeing the amount of light thrown in a horizontal beam from a British standard candle. These candles are made to a specified diameter of exactly seven-eighths of an inch thick from a white crystalline wax found in sperm whales. Today a more exact measurement of light intensity is done using the international candle, which is equal to one tenth of the beam from a Harcourt pentane lamp. This lamp burns a mixture of pentane, or paraffin gas, and air. An electric light having an illuminating power of twenty times that of the international candle is giving off twenty candle power. These days electric lights are usually compared by lumens instead of by candle power. A lumen is the amount of light that falls on a piece of paper one foot square and placed so that all parts of the paper are exactly one foot distant from a light of one candle power. With today’s electronics instruments called illuminometers have been designed and created which register on a dial or digital readout the candle power or foot-candles of light. Select this link to view our Collectible Santa Claus Gifts.