A colorless glass peg lamp with a pewter collar on an onion shaped front set, into a green-painted crude cylindrical base. A "make-do".
oil lamps
glassblowing
glass (material)
painting (coating)
pewter (tin alloy)
pine (wood)
tin (metal)
pine (wood)
Glass
Pine
Pewter
Blown
Painted
LAMP, OIL
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
1986.817A,B
Unknown
5.25 (H), 3.75 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.817AB
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