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Oil Lamp

Collection Type

  • Lighting

Date

1850-1899

GUSN

GUSN-5937

Description

Domed shoulders sit on a tapered, flared body indented at the waist and then flaring into a bulb and joining the square base; two-part molded colorless body.

Details

Descriptive Terms

oil lamps
glass (material)
pressing
Glass
Pressed
LAMP, OIL

Associated Building

Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

8 x 3.25 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.1038

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