Lot 16

CUT OVERLAY OVAL AND PUNTY KEROSENE STAND LAMP

Estimate: $200 - $300
Sold for
$172.20
Sold Price includes BP

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CUT OVERLAY OVAL AND PUNTY KEROSENE STAND LAMP, opaque white to colorless pyriform font, a medial band of cut and engraved foliage decoration between a single row of punties and a lower row of ovals, opaque white double-step foot, No. 2 fine-line collar. Fitted with a period setup comprising a No. 2 Collins slip burner, colorless and frosted globular-form shade with engraved floral decoration to the medial, and a colorless slip chimney. Probably Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. 1860-1870. 18 1/4" H to top of shade, 11 1/2" H to top of collar, 4 5/8" SQ base. Shade 5 7/8" H, 4 1/8" D fitter.
Probably Published: Thuro - Oil Lamps II, p. 25, fig. L.
Literature: Font parallels Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, Vol. 2, p. 206, fig. 2351. Base parallels ibid., p. 203, fig. 2343.

Condition

Very good condition, font undamaged, two foot corners with significant chips/losses, remaining corners and foot edge with flakes/roughness, light annealing line off of top of stem. Burner and chimney undamaged, shade fitter with minute flakes/roughness.

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From the Catherine Thuro Collection, Toronto, ON, Canada.