Square gray marble base with four ball feet at corners; brass ringed support upholds clear round glass font for fuel with large "bulls eye" type pressed motif above cross hatched and swag motif. Electrified.
camphene lamps
brass (alloy)
glass (material)
marble (rock)
Lamp
Lamp, Camphene
Lamp, Camphene
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
8 11/16 (H), 4 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.293
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