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1845-1865
GUSN-11027
Pressed clear glass camphene(?) lamp, of goblet form, its domed top has straight tapered sides with waffle & thump print pattern and a notched rim. There is an outflared hexogonal stem and hexogonal base, with metal fitting at the top. It is now fitted as an electric lamp with a six-sided white silky shade.
glass (material)
pressing
Victorian
Glass
Pressed
Victorian
LAMP, CAMPHENE/ ELECTRIC
On the bottom underside, there is a NFL paper jelly label with the inscription of: Loaned/by/N.F. Little .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
New England Glass Co. (Maker)
Cambridge, USA
9.75 x 4.5 (HxW), 7 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1284AB
Possibly Massachusetts (United States)
Possibly
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