CROCODILE TEARS MINIATURE LAMPS, LOT OF TWO, cased pink with light opalescence to the font and opaque white, square-form font, matching patterned and decorated umbrella-form shade, pink shade cased and with no opalescence, period collars. Each fitted with a period burner, colorless chimneys. Dugan Glass Co. Circa 1903. 7 5/8" H to top of 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.
Catalogue Note: This is the first pink example we have sold.
Opaque example and pink font undamaged, pink shade top with several sliver flakes/chips to the outer casing and not affecting the profile, each shade rim with normal as-made minute flakes/roughness, one collar with a split. Burners and one chimney undamaged, remaining chimney with as-made flakes/roughness.