EDWARD MILLER HOBNAIL / DEW DROP OPALESCENT KEROSENE HANGING / LIBRARY LAMP, cranberry opalescent Hobnail/Dew Drop umbrella shade, Pillows brass font vase with scrolling support arms and floral brass decoration to the sides, copper finished brass drop-in font, stamped brass shade ring, cast-metal crossed leveler, motor cover with motor, and a shade crown. Fitted with a period slip burner, colorless slip chimney, colorless and cobalt blue faceted prisms. E. Miller & Co. Late 19th/early 20th century. Shade: 5 7/8" H, 13 3/4" D fitter.
Literature: Parallels Ebersole - Hanging Victorian Lamps of the Nineteenth Century, p. 116.

From the John Laughlin collection, Conway, AR.

Shade undamaged; remainder in excellent condition overall with a solder repair to the interior of the shade ring where the support arms connect; font having some denting to the sides; floral decoration having some areas of corrosion; some prisms having some minor imperfections such as flaking. Shade having some expected roughness to the fitter and top rim, as made.