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1850-1870
GUSN-2812
Loop-shaped swing handle on a pierced cylindrical tin top and oblong, clear glass globe with a pierced, cylindrical base with a flared foot; the pierced design is a diamond motif; the original burner in the base of the lamp has been electrified.
glass (material)
piercing
tin (metal)
Tin
Glass
Pierced
LANTERN, KEROSENE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
17 x 5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1263
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