Jacob's iron work is clean, elegant, and modern, based on my rush nip and candle holder purchase. The nip I purchased is inspired, I believe, by the American Colonial interpretation of the classic Irish or Scottish Highland rushlight nip circa 17th or 18th century. Its; lines resemble family pieces from that time. Colonial era smiths produced many of these in New England and the Carolinas, having learned themselves back home, or from being apprenticed to an old country trained smith. The nip tended to be more blunt than the old country items, had no teeth or ripples on the jaw to grip the rushlight, fewer decorative features, and a plain or turned-in foot, rather than a shell or spiral. He left appropriate tooling marks and irregularities that demonstrate the artisanal hand-wrought origin of the piece. The items were well packed, and he enclosed what looks like a beeswax candle and a ten inch rush stub. Thanks! If he offered comparable Celtic Firedogs and Gaelic oat cake harnans, with appropriate decorative motifs, I'd order them. Well done, sir!. - John