Some ages ago, probably back in the late 1990's, I had purchased a Carmel jumper quarter-size blow mold and 5 foot brass pole. It ended up in the basement until 2023 when I finally had room for it to go on display. I had found an antique indoor flag pole holder at a local garage sale and decided that was perfect to make a stand for it. 

None of the brass poles I have fit into the flag pole holder so I had to do a bit of engineering to make that work.  The color of the flag pole stand was a bit different from the poles so I also had to alter the coloring to match a bit better.

The project all started with this antique flag pole holder found at a garage sale. I gave it a through cleaning with Dawn dish soap, water, and a firm bristled vegetable brush.  There was a lot of pitting from rust so I determined that it was going to need to be painted, which was fine since the color of the flag pole holder was quite coppery compared to my twisted brass poles.

First thing I had to do was figure out how to get the pole and flag pole holder to work together. The twisted brass pole I had was almost the same diameter as the outside dimension of the flag pole holder hole so I decided to do a little woodworking to make an insert that the twisted brass pole could slide over. I also needed to secure a 4 foot threaded steel rod into the base that would go through the blow mold and secure everything together.

I decided the best way to do this was to drill a hole for the threaded rod into a 2 inch by 2 inch length of wood. I then cut off all four corners of the 2x2 and sanded it until it was round and fit through the flag pole holder hole. I left the bottom section of the 2x2 square, cut it off even with the flag pole holder feet, and used the 2x2 as a support/4th leg to help stabilize and offset the top heavy nature of mounting my Carmel blow mold toward the top of the pole.

I then put the threaded steel rod into the drilled out hole, filled the hole with glue, and used the cut-off corners with some other wood scraps to fill in around the threaded steel rod. I used a bubble level on the steel rod to get it straight up and down.

Once the glue dried fully I cut off the shims flush with the top of the 2x2.

Next came 3 coats of metallic brass spray paint.

I was not quite happy with the color match so I put on an antique brass metallic rub on paint.

The twisted brass rod slides over the rounded wood 2x2 and rests on the rim of the flag pole stander pole hole:

I finished the base with a few coats of gloss polyurethane spray.

To mount the blow mold I used a brass "bar rod cap" I found on Amazon. It consists of two pieces that screw together. The inside section screws to the wall (or the blow mold in this case) then the cap section screws on to cover the screw holes. As was the case with the flag pole holder, the twisted brass pole was too large to fit in the bar rod cap hole and was about the same size as the outside dimension. Since I wanted to mount my Carmel jumper at an angle (in more of a rearing pose than a jumper pose) I cut the twisted brass pole at an angle. The brass pole rests on the bar rod cap lip.

For the top section of pole I did not have room to fit a bar rod cap so I just drilled a big enough hole for the twisted brass hole into the blow mold. The twisted brass pole just slides into the hole and is held in place by friction. I haven't had any trouble with the brass pole sliding into the blow mold because of the "twist" texture.