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Oil burning lamp fitted with screw-in bulb socket and brown paper shade; oil font of colorless glass has four mold seams; pressed ovoid pattern on top half of font, diamond, ellipse and chevron pattern below mid-line; font on a lead balustre with traces of gilding; baluster attached through square white marble pedestal with half-ball feat; electrified.
camphene lamps
gilding
glass (material)
lead (metal)
marble (rock)
Glass
Marble
Lead
Gilded
LAMP, CAMPHENE
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
3 5/8 x 3 5/8 (WxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.521
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