FREE-BLOWN WHALE OIL SPARKING HAND LAMP
FREE-BLOWN WHALE OIL SPARKING HAND LAMP, colorless, truncated bulb font with delicate applied solid handle, raised on a pronounced drawn foot with rough pontil mark. Fitted with a period tin and cork single-tube drop-in burner marked "PATENT". United States. 1820-1840.
Condition: Undamaged.
Size: 2 7/8" H to top of opening, 1 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, truncated bulb font with delicate applied solid handle, raised on a pronounced drawn foot with rough pontil mark. Fitted with a period tin and cork single-tube drop-in burner marked "PATENT". United States. 1820-1840.
Condition: Undamaged.
Size: 2 7/8" H to top of opening, 1 7/8" DOA font, 2 1/4" D foot.
Provenance: Collection of Eileen and the late Herb White, Prescott, AZ.