Lamp
- Object Name:
- Lamp
- Object ID:
- 1942.019.02.1
- Date:
- circa 1840
- Description:
- Peg Oil Lamp, glass and brass with cotton. Two-burner with brass wick tubes extending from flat disc of threaded plate. Tubes are splayed apart. Burner threads into brass adapter ring which has two decorative grooves on the outside. Adapter ring held in place by plaster. Two lengths of braided wick material in reservoir bowl that are stuck into bottom of wick tubes. Wicks are braided textile fiber wrapped around a small bundle of twisted fiber threads. Glass reservoir has two vertical mold marks opposite each other. Glass peg has large diameter of 0.8" and is slightly tapered. Peg has glass disc as part of it which is attached to bottom of reservoir in hot-glass process. Some distortions around bottom edge of reservoir due to joining process. Reservoir and peg are of clear glass.
- Material:
- Glass
Metal
Textile - Dimensions:
- H-5.6 Dia-2 inches
- Provenance:
- Owned by Charles Henry Greenleaf, hotel proprietor, born 1841, Danville, VT. Became identified with the hotel business early in life and was connected with hotels in Washington, New York, Boston, and the White Mountains. Became one of the proprietors of the Profile House, White Mountains, 1865, as Taft, Tyler, & Greenleaf, which became Taft & Greenleaf, 1868, and in sole charge from the death of Mr. Taft in 1881.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret H. Jewell
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