MATCH-HOLDER MINIATURE FINGER LAMP, colorless, ribbed cylinder-form font adjacent to a molded basketweave pattern match-holder with handle, matching patterned conical-form chimney-shade, No. 1 Taplin-Brown collar. Fitted with a Plume & Atwood Nutmeg burner. Late 19th century. 7 5/8" H to top of chimney-shade, 2 1/2" H to top of collar, 2 3/4" D font base, 6" L with match-holder.
Literature: Parallels Smith - Miniature Lamps I, p. 55, fig. 52.
Provenance: From the Bill and Carol Lindow collection, Shaker Heights, OH.
Condition
Excellent condition, chimney-shade with normal minor flakes/roughness to the rims, most as made. Burner deflector with some light denting.