FREE-BLOWN WHALE OIL SPARKING HAND LAMP
FREE-BLOWN WHALE OIL SPARKING HAND LAMP, colorless, compressed conical font with slight saucer-form shoulder and applied solid handle, raised on a drawn foot with rough pontil mark. Fitted with a period tin and cork single-tube drop-in burner. United States. 1820-1840.
Condition: Lamp undamaged; burner with losses to the cork. Top of the font having a minor manufacturing imperfection, as made.
Size: 2 7/8" H to top of opening, 2 7/8" DOA font, 2 1/4" D foot.
Provenance: Collection of Eileen and the late Herb White, Prescott, AZ.
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FREE-BLOWN WHALE OIL SPARKING HAND LAMP, colorless, compressed conical font with slight saucer-form shoulder and applied solid handle, raised on a drawn foot with rough pontil mark. Fitted with a period tin and cork single-tube drop-in burner. United States. 1820-1840.
Condition: Lamp undamaged; burner with losses to the cork. Top of the font having a minor manufacturing imperfection, as made.
Size: 2 7/8" H to top of opening, 2 7/8" DOA font, 2 1/4" D foot.
Provenance: Collection of Eileen and the late Herb White, Prescott, AZ.
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