Lamp
- Object Name:
- Lamp
- Object ID:
- 1942.019.02.2
- Date:
- circa 1840
- Description:
- Peg Lamp, brass and glass reservoir. No burner. Threaded brass adapter held in place by plaster. Two decorative grooves around exterior of brass adapter. Slightly tapering cylindrical reservoir. Mold lines of side of reservoir. Tapered glass peg is attached to bottom of reservoir in hot-glass process. An uneven bottom thickness in bottom of reservoir. Small swirl of hot glass on bottom of peg. Typescript adhesive tape label on peg: "Loan 1942 / M.H. Jewell".
- Material:
- Glass
Metal
Textile - Dimensions:
- H-4.1 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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