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Double whale oil burner on cylindrical reservoir on tapering ringed staudard and deep, circular, flar rimmed saucer-like base.
whale oil lamps
pewter (tin alloy)
tin (metal)
Pewter
LAMP, OIL
Under the drip pan is a taped inscription in ink that reads: B.K. LITTLE . Also underneath on a partial jelly jar label it reads: 750 .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4.5 (H), 3.125 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1321
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