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Small tin box with an oval form with fitted cover. Contains a small glass vial (in appropriate inside holder) to contain fluid lighter.
tin (metal)
oval (shape)
Tin
Oval
LAMP
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2.25 x 1.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.499
Cooke, Lawrence S.. "Lighting in America", Antiques Magazine Library. [No Publisher].
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