PRESSED LOOP / LEAF WHALE OIL / FLUID STAND LAMP, bright Canary (reacts under black light), dome-top six-loop font featuring a lower double-step, raised on a compressed knop stem and octagonal baluster-form standard and square base, wafer construction, period pewter collar. Fitted with a period pewter two-tube burner. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. and others. 1840-1860. 9 7/8" H to top of collar, 3 1/8" SQ base.
Provenance: From the George Foree collection, Overland Park, KS.
Condition
Good condition overall with scattered flaking and chipping to the tops of the font loops with a single bruise to one loop; base edge having scattered chipping including an elongated moderate to sizeable example; burner having a loss to one cap.