FREE-BLOWN AND PRESSED WHALE OIL SPARKING LAMP
FREE-BLOWN AND PRESSED WHALE OIL SPARKING LAMP, colorless, ball-form font raised on a four-step base with extended rounded and raised ball corners, rough pontil mark, wafer construction. Fitted with a period tin and cork single-tube drop-in burner marked "PATENT". Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. and others. Second quarter 19th century.
Condition: Excellent condition with a few flakes to the base edge, some scattered surface wear.
Size: 4" H to top opening, font 2 1/8" D, 2" SQ foot.
Provenance: Collection of Eileen and the late Herb White, Prescott, AZ.
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FREE-BLOWN AND PRESSED WHALE OIL SPARKING LAMP, colorless, ball-form font raised on a four-step base with extended rounded and raised ball corners, rough pontil mark, wafer construction. Fitted with a period tin and cork single-tube drop-in burner marked "PATENT". Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. and others. Second quarter 19th century.
Condition: Excellent condition with a few flakes to the base edge, some scattered surface wear.
Size: 4" H to top opening, font 2 1/8" D, 2" SQ foot.
Provenance: Collection of Eileen and the late Herb White, Prescott, AZ.
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