Acorn-shaped reservoir on baluster-shaped standard and stepped round base; whale oil burners.
whale oil lamps
casting (process)
pewter (tin alloy)
tin alloy
Pewter
LAMP, OIL
1) Impressed maker's mark on base: ""PUTNAM"" within a scalloped edge rectangular reserve. 2) Handwritten paper jelly label on base: ""J.H. Putnam / Malden / 1835-1855"" and ""B.K. LITTLE"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Putnam, J. H. (Maker)
Malden, MA, USA
9 1/2 (H), 4 1/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.251.1
Massachusetts (United States)
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