Colorless 2-part molded font. Squat inverted onion shape, w/ a brass collar at top to receive burner. Collar has two incised lines. Corresponding cylindrical brass stem w/ step molding and a knop at join to base. Base missing.
oil lamps
fragments
brass (alloy)
glass (material)
blow molding
Glass
Brass
Blown
LAMP, OIL
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
4.625 x 3.563 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.199
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