Lamp, Oil
- Object Name:
- Lamp, Oil
- Object ID:
- 1965.018.02
- Creator:
- Hall, Leon
Toolmaker - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1965
- Description:
- Model of a gas jet. Truncated conical piece of lead 0.75" high with a greater diameter at the bottom than at the flat top. Two pieces of 0.375" diameter copper pipe, one inserted into side and the other rising from top of the lead piece. Wick inserted in the top piece of pipe. Rather roughly made.
- Material:
- Metal
Lead
Fiber
Copper - Dimensions:
- H-1.7 W-1.7 L-3.7 inches
- Provenance:
- Model made by the donor, Leon Hall, a former coach painter and striper at the Abbot-Downing Company in Concord, NH. Model is one-third of the actual size of the open gas jets used c. 1900 by painters at Abbot-Dowing to provide light for carriage and body painting.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Leon Hall
- People:
- Hall, Leon
- Subjects:
- Lighting
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