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Transparent canary yellow body. Mold-blown elongated font, squared at shoulders with loop-type vacetted side panels. Slightlyf domed top fitted with iron collar. Free-blown wafer joins font to base. Hexagonal base with facetted sides tapering to two facetted rings at stem. Original burner replaced with electric fitting. Accordion-pleated paper lamp shade.
whale oil lamps
electric lamps (lighting device forms)
glassblowing
glass (material)
blow molding
pressing
Glass
Pressed
Blown
LAMP, OIL
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Attributed to Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. (Manufacturer)
Sandwich, MA, USA
18.375 x 4.625 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.535
Massachusetts (United States)
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