Lot 6

PRESSED STAR AND PUNTY FLUID STAND LAMPS, PAIR

Estimate: $100 - $150
Sold for
$350.63
Sold Price includes BP

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$200 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

PRESSED STAR AND PUNTY FLUID STAND LAMPS, PAIR, colorless, each with dome-top hexagonal font with lower knop extension, raised on a hexagonal baluster-stem base, wafer construction, period No. 1 pewter collars. Each fitted with a pewter and brass double-tube fluid burner with original chains and caps. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. and others. 1840-1865. 10 1/8" H to top of collar, 4 1/4" DOA base.
Published: Thuro - Oil Lamps III, p. 7 left.
Probably Published: One lamp Thuro - Oil Lamps I, p. 79 Middle; one lamp Thuro - Oil Lamps III, p. 30, fig. C.
Literature: Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, vol. 1, p. 93, fig. 1179.
Exhibited: The Great North American Kerosene Lamp Exhibit and Forum, held at the Huntington Galleries in Huntington, WV, July 24, 1983 thru November 13, 1983.

Condition

Excellent condition, fonts and stems undamaged, each foot edge with expected minor flakes/roughness. One burner undamaged, remaining example with some scattered light denting.

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