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November 20, 2025: Fall Premier Americana: Day One

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  2025-11-20 09:00:00 2025-11-20 09:00:00 America/New_York Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates : November 20, 2025: Fall Premier Americana: Day One https://live.jeffreysevans.com/auctions/jeffrey-evans/november-20-2025-fall-premier-americana-day-one-20842
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  • Metal Lamps
Lot 115

CORNELIUS & CO., DEITZ OR HENRY HOOPER & CO. BRASS SOLAR STAND LAMP

Estimate: $150 - $250
Starting Bid
$50

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$200 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

CORNELIUS & CO., DEITZ OR HENRY HOOPER & CO. BRASS SOLAR STAND LAMP, pyriform font with an oval-form label marked "CORNELIUS & CO. / PHILAD. PATENT / APRIL 1ST 1843", cast brass attributed Henry Hooper standard, baluster-form stem with ribbing and floral/foliage ornamentation, heavy scrolled and floral tri-form foot. Fitted with an electrified Plume & Atwood Harvard slip burner, brass shade ring, colorless snowflake patterned cut broad spear-tip prisms, and a colorless and frosted Oregon shade with engraved foliage band to the medial and under a rope band, neck with double rows of engraved punties. Electrified. Font Cornelius & Co.; standard attributed to Henry N. Hooper Co. or Dietz & Co. Mid 19th century. 24 1/4" HOA to top of shade, 15 3/4" H to top of collar, 7" DOA foot. Shade 9 7/8" HOA, 6 1/8" D fitter.
Literature: Base as Gowitt - 19th Century Elegant Lighting Argand, Sinumbra, and Solar Lamps, p. 90, top right. Dietz & Company Illustrated Catalogue, p. 21, fig. 17.

Condition

Very good overall condition, font with top alterations due to electrification, font with some scattered light denting, interior of font base with a drilled hole and another to the underside of the foot. Burner with alterations due to electrification and including the lacking of components, prisms in excellent condition with several having minute flakes/roughness, shade undamaged.

Provenance

From the Larry McCallister Estate, Indianapolis, IN.

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