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Conical font with splayed double burners on saucer-like base with finger hold; lacquered blue finish with circular mirrored reflector held by tin uprights and rectangular plateau attached to burner neck.
camphene lamps
painting (coating)
tin (metal)
Tin
Painted
LAMP, CAMPHENE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 (H), 4.5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.255
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