1800-1850
GUSN-8542
Rectangular with two glass sides; one glass door. Tin box with heavy back. Front side hinged for door with tiny wire fastener. Contains small half-circle shelf and tiny oil lite of same shape; circular handle, string wick, moveable cover over oil resevoir. Fastened to wall with decorative bolt. Top open with quarter circle wind shield.
miniatures (toys)
lanterns (lighting devices)
oil lamps
glass (material)
painting (coating)
tin (metal)
Tin
Glass
Painted
LANTERN
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
13 x 8 x 5.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.757
Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].