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1810-1830
GUSN-255457
Whale oil burning lamp converted to electricity. Star patterned hexagonal font with domed top. Wafer attaches font to bulbous hexagonal pedestal on raised foot. White shade with dried floral arrangement under loose weave fabric overlay.
lamps (lighting devices)
pressed glass
Lamp
Thacher, Mary
Original To Winslow Crocker House (Yarmouth Port, Mass.),
Unknown
Sandwich, MA
19 1/2 x 4 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Estate of Guido Perera
1999.474
Possibly Massachusetts (United States)
Possibly
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