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Culture:American
Title:oil lamp
Date Made:1830-1860
Type:Lighting Device
Materials:base metal: pewter
Place Made:United States; New England
Measurements:overall: 5 1/2 in.; 13.97 cm
Accession Number:  HD 72.094
Credit Line:Gift of J. Peter Spang III and Thomas J.G. Spang
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Pewter oil lamp made like a chamberstick, with a font for whale oil (missing brass wick holder). The manufacture of oil lamps in America, which began in the 1820's, reached its peak in the 1840s and 1850s; they were made in a variety of shapes, and had burners with either one or two wicks for whale oil or "burning fluid." From originally burning lard, fish, and whale oils, the burning fluids for oil lamps later became petroleum (found in 1814, dug from wells), camphene, and kerosene.

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