Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2267Location: BostonDate / Time: February 20, 2005 11:00AM
Description:
Pair of Yellow Pressed Four-Printie Block Glass Fluid Lamps, Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1840-50, on a pressed hexagonal standard and base, with pewter collar and camphene burners, (base edge chips),ht. 12 7/8 in.
Literature: These lamps are similar to one illustrated in The Glass Industry in Sandwich Vol. 1-5 by Raymond E. Barlow and Joan Kaiser, Barlow Kaiser Publishing Company, Inc., Windham, New Hampshire, in conjunction with Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, Pennsylvania, plate 2104.
Estimate $1,000-1,500