HOBBS CORAL REEF / SEAWEED KEROSENE STAND LAMP, Ruby/cranberry opalescent font, colorless beehive stem and ribbed base, small-size, No. 1 Taplin-Brown collar. Fitted with a No. 1 "BOSTON" burner and colorless slip chimney with a serrated-scalloped top. Hobbs, Brockunier & Co. and Beaumont Glass Co. Circa 1890. 7 1/4" H to top of collar, 3 3/4" SQ base.
Nearly undamaged with a flake to one base corner, remaining corners with light roughness to the underside, probably as made, some light interior residue to the font, a few short minor splits to the collar.
Literature: Parallels Thuro - Oil Lamps II, p. 104, fig. A.
Provenance: From the Thomas R. Golden estate collection, Wilmington, DE.

Nearly undamaged with a flake to one base corner, remaining corners with light roughness to the underside, probably as made, some light interior residue to the font, a few short minor splits to the collar.