CAST BRASS JULIUS C. IVES ADJUSTABLE KEROSENE HANGING LAMP, cast brass crescent-form hanger supporting chains and spiraling supports which thread into two of the spider arms, top medial with a hook for smoke bell, ring font holder, alabaster/clambroth Tucker font, No. 2 fine-line collar. Fitted with a period setup comprising a No. 2 E. Miller & Co. lip burner, four-arm spider-form Ives shade holder with impressed patent date, an opal conical-form shade, a colorless chimney, and an opaque white smoke bell with metal hanger. Third quarter 19th century. Frame 32 1/4" HOA, font 3 1/2" H to top of collar.
Published: Lamp and font: Thuro - Oil Lamps III, p. 189, fig. C.

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

Frame undamaged. Burner de-attached at hinge, smoke bell with a sliver chip to the top, shade and chimney undamaged.