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1835-1860
GUSN-6229
Whale oil lamp has pewter collar with two incised rings; below, colorless glass font of pressed three-part mold glass, with rounded shoulders, eight elongated thumbprint facets, tapering to waist; applied base from two-part mold is conical with corresponding facets, octagonal base.
oil lamps
glass (material)
incising
pewter (tin alloy)
tin (metal)
Glass
Pewter
Incised
LAMP, OIL
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
MA, USA
8 x 4.375 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1186
Possibly Massachusetts (United States)
Possibly
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