CROCODILE TEARS MINIATURE LAMPS, LOT OF FOUR, amethyst, blue, custard with opalescence, square-form font with one amethyst example having gilt decorated corners, one amethyst and custard examples with a matching patterned ball-form chimney-shades in colorless and custard, and another with a non-period colorless unpatterned ball-form chimney-shade, period No. 1 collars. Each fitted with a period burner. Dugan Glass Co. Circa 1903. 7 5/8" H to top of chimney-shade, 4" H to top of collar, 3" SQ base.
Literature: Parallels Smith - Miniature Lamps I, p. 124, fig. 255.
Provenance: From the Bill and Carol Lindow collection, Shaker Heights, OH.
Very good overall condition, fonts undamaged and custard example with as-made roughness, chimney-shades with flakes/roughness, most as made. One burner lacking deflector, remaining undamaged.