Clear glass lamp with a later amber stain on a square plinth with a hexagonal body. Sandwich glass. One of a pair.
camphene lamps
glass (material)
pressing
Lamp, Camphene
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
13 (H), 5 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.3183.1
Probably Pennsylvania (United States)
Probably
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