RIPLEY MARRIAGE / WEDDING KEROSENE STAND LAMP

RIPLEY MARRIAGE / WEDDING KEROSENE STAND LAMP, alabaster/clambroth fonts and match holder center, embossed on match holder "PATENTD SEP. 20. 1870", opaque white Blackberry base, brass Hobbs clinch connector with impressed patent date, No. 1 brass collars. Ripley & Co. Third quarter 19th century. 11 3/8" H to top of collar, 3 7/8" SQ foot.
Nearly undamaged other than some minor roughness and two minute flakes to font support, foot with some minor roughness, probably as made, clinch connector with denting and slightly loose, collars with some light denting.
Literature: Parallels Thuro - Oil Lamps III p. 101. Base as Thuro - Oil Lamps I, p. 156, fig. D.
Condition Report: Nearly undamaged other than some minor roughness and two minute flakes to font support, foot with some minor roughness, probably as made, clinch connector with denting and slightly loose, collars with some light denting.