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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Night lamp
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Night lamp

Manufacturer Gillinder & Sons (American, 1867 - 1930)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1895
MediumMold blown glass | Metal
DimensionsOverall: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)
Base: 2 7/8 x 2 7/8 in. (7.3 x 7.3 cm)
InscribedWick adjustment knob marked "MADE IN THE U.S.A.[mark -- see card]"
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number0.3014
Not on view
Published ReferencesCHINA, GLASS & LAMPS, Nov. 6, 1895, cited as source of advertisement by A.G. McDonald, THE EVOLUTION OF THE NIGHT LAMP, p. 49-50.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1730
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
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ca. 1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Gorham Manufacturing Company
ca. 1866
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1730
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Francis Hopkinson Smith
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1830
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1830