Conical font with cylindrical filler tube on flaring base; strap handle; single burner.
petticoat lamps
tin (metal)
Tin
Lamp, Oil
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4 1/4 x 3 1/2 (HxW), 2 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.265
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