Lamp
- Object Name:
- Lamp
- Object ID:
- 1965.013.418
- Description:
- Oil Lamp, tin-plated steel and pewter. Squat, cylindrical, sheet-metal reservoir with flat soldered bottom cap and slightly domed top cap that has threaded brass insert soldered into center of top cap. Tall, cylindrical shield soldered to top cap, with 1.3" wide slot that flares out to almost flat-top edge. Shield has rolled metal edges. Few small bends and distortions in shield. Rolled edge finger ring made of flat stock soldered to outside of lamp at back edge where there is a vertical seam in body. Twin, steel-tubed wick holders cast in pewter body with threaded edge. Two slots in tubes near top and small hole in wick-holder body. Wick holder does not thread easily into body.
- Material:
- Metal
Tin
Pewter - Dimensions:
- H-4.4 W-3.7 D-2.9 Dia-2.8 inches
- Credit Line:
- Mr. and Mrs. Harry K. Rogers Collection, Gift of Josephine P. Rogers
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