CAST-IRON DIETZ NO. 838 DIMINUTIVE KEROSENE BRACKET LAMP
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Description
CAST-IRON DIETZ NO. 838 DIMINUTIVE KEROSENE BRACKET LAMP, black paint, ring-form font holder, single arm with simple leaf and entwining tendrils pattern and post for reflector, appropriate wall plate, colorless unpatterned bracket font, No. 1 fine-line collar. Fitted with a period setup comprising a Holmes, Booth & Haydens / E. F. Jones No. 0 lip burner, thumbwheel marked "HOLMES BOOTH & HAYDENS / PAT JAN 24. 1860 / E. F. JONES PAT JAN, 11TH 1859", colorless chimney, and a sheet-iron reflector with ribbed pattern. Third quarter 19th century. Bracket 4" HOA, 6 3/4" L; font 4" H to top of collar.
Probably Published: Bracket - Thuro - Oil Lamps III, p. 61, fig. H.
Literature: Bracket Dietz & Company, Illustrated Catalogue, pl. 14, no. 3 bottom row.
Provenance:
From the Catherine Thuro Collection, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Condition
Excellent condition, bracket ring holder with as-made roughness to the edge, font undamaged. Burner and chimney undamaged, reflector with losses to finish and some scattered light rust.
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