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Kerosene Lamp

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Collection Type

  • Lighting

Date

1859-1880

GUSN

GUSN-56860

Description

Invrtd pear shp font; apple-gr base; tap. reeded shaft; wh/green

Reproduction shade installed in 2022. Service number S2022.2.1

Details

Descriptive Terms

kerosene lamps
flashing (glassworking)
glass (material)
Glass
Cased
LAMP, KEROSENE

Associated Building

Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann

Accession Number

1942.3971

Places

Probably Massachusetts (United States)
Probably

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