HITCHCOCK AND BALTIMORE, MARYLAND CERAMIC MECHANICAL
HITCHCOCK AND BALTIMORE, MARYLAND CERAMIC MECHANICAL KEROSENE VASE LAMP, cream ground with rose staining and gilt tracing, ceramic urn with pink and cream oak leaf motif with gilt highlights, printed mark "AVALON / FAIENCE / BALT." brass drop-in font with complete working mechanics and applied signed plaque soldered to the side. Fitted with original burner embossed "HITCHCOCK LAMP WATERTOWN NEW YORK" with additional patent information. Fitted into a cast-brass double-handled base. Hitchcock Lamp Co., Watertown, NY; Chesapeake Pottery, Baltimore, MD. Circa 1880. 12" HOA, 5 3/4" DOA.
Nearly undamaged with some denting to the font tank; working appropriately.
Literature: Thuro - Oil Lamps I, p. 70, fig. a.
Provenance: Collection of Eileen and the late Herb White, Prescott, AZ.
Condition Report: Nearly undamaged with some denting to the font tank; working appropriately.
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HITCHCOCK AND BALTIMORE, MARYLAND CERAMIC MECHANICAL KEROSENE VASE LAMP, cream ground with rose staining and gilt tracing, ceramic urn with pink and cream oak leaf motif with gilt highlights, printed mark "AVALON / FAIENCE / BALT." brass drop-in font with complete working mechanics and applied signed plaque soldered to the side. Fitted with original burner embossed "HITCHCOCK LAMP WATERTOWN NEW YORK" with additional patent information. Fitted into a cast-brass double-handled base. Hitchcock Lamp Co., Watertown, NY; Chesapeake Pottery, Baltimore, MD. Circa 1880. 12" HOA, 5 3/4" DOA.
Nearly undamaged with some denting to the font tank; working appropriately.
Literature: Thuro - Oil Lamps I, p. 70, fig. a.
Provenance: Collection of Eileen and the late Herb White, Prescott, AZ.
Condition Report: Nearly undamaged with some denting to the font tank; working appropriately.
