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1820-1870
GUSN-10638
Small, painted tin chamber oil lamp with candlestand base and raised center with demi tune shaped oil container with single wide tube; base pan has looped handle and thumb rest; painted white but very dirty.
oil lamps
painting (coating)
soldering
tin (metal)
Tin
Soldered
Painted
Lamp, Oil
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
1 3/4 x 6 1/5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.529
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