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Lamp, Oil

Object Name:
Lamp, Oil
Object ID:
1972.509.06
Description:
Oil Lamp, brass and glass. Clear glass reservoir is tapered, bell-shape with two vertical mold marks opposite each other. Applied glass finger ring handle attached to side of reservoir along one mold mark with hot-glass process. Brass adapter ring held in place by plaster at top. Two decorative grooves around side. No burner unit present. Some abrasions on bottom surface in swirl of molted glass area. There might be three or four numbers likely impressed in glass on bottom or it could just be a series of coincidental marks.
Material:
Glass
Metal
Brass
Dimensions:
H-4 W-4.1 Dia-3.3 inches
Credit Line:
New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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