Lot 43

FLAME BULLSEYE KEROSENE STAND LAMP

Estimate: $100 - $200
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FLAME BULLSEYE KEROSENE STAND LAMP, colorless font with gilt outlined bullseye, opaque white Baroque base with gilded bands, brass connector, No. 2 brass collar. Fitted with a period set-up comprising a Miller Co. No. 2 lip burner, 4 1/4" stamped shade ring, colorless with frosted finish cut and engraved ball-form shade with Greek key pattern, and a period colorless lip chimney. Third quarter 19th century. 21" H to top of shade, 13 1/4" H to top of collar, 5 3/4" SQ base. Shade 6 1/2" H, 3 7/8" D fitter.
Published: Lamp - Thuro - Oil Lamps II, p. 24, fig. A.

Condition

Undamaged lamp, foot edge with some minor normal as-made roughness, base with some scattered as-made annealing lines, overall wear to gilding, connector with some roughness to the top edge. Burner undamaged, shade fitter with several flakes/roughness, chimney top with some minor as-made roughness.

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