RIPLEY DOUBLE-HANDLED KEROSENE FOOTED FINGER LAMP
RIPLEY DOUBLE-HANDLED KEROSENE FOOTED FINGER LAMP, translucent bubbly blue, with stippled center post, base lightly embossed and appears to be "RIPLEY & CO PAT'D JAN 7TH JULY 14TH AUG 11TH 1868", the center with a circle and a "1", period No. 1 collar. Fitted with a period setup comprising a No. 0 slip burner and colorless chimney. Ripley & Co. Circa 1868. 5" H to top of collar, 3 3/4" D foot.
Undamaged lamp. Burner with some light denting, chimney undamaged.
Literature: Thuro - Oil Lamps 3, p. 103, fig. f.
Provenance: From the Joe Cesarini estate collection, Ridgely MD.
Condition Report: Undamaged lamp. Burner with some light denting, chimney undamaged.
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RIPLEY DOUBLE-HANDLED KEROSENE FOOTED FINGER LAMP, translucent bubbly blue, with stippled center post, base lightly embossed and appears to be "RIPLEY & CO PAT'D JAN 7TH JULY 14TH AUG 11TH 1868", the center with a circle and a "1", period No. 1 collar. Fitted with a period setup comprising a No. 0 slip burner and colorless chimney. Ripley & Co. Circa 1868. 5" H to top of collar, 3 3/4" D foot.
Undamaged lamp. Burner with some light denting, chimney undamaged.
Literature: Thuro - Oil Lamps 3, p. 103, fig. f.
Provenance: From the Joe Cesarini estate collection, Ridgely MD.
Condition Report: Undamaged lamp. Burner with some light denting, chimney undamaged.
