Spherical pressed glass font decorated with two bands of six oval facets with alternating ribs in between; terminating in hexagonal base joined with a glass wafer; cylindrical pewter ring at top; electrified.
whale oil lamps
electric lamps (lighting device forms)
flint glass
pewter (tin alloy)
pressing
glass (material)
tin (metal)
Glass
Pewter
Pressed
LAMP, OIL
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
17.5 x 14.875 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.383
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