Description

VARIOUS LIP AND SLIP CHIMNEYS, LOT OF EIGHT, colorless, comprising six specific burner mold-blown chimneys including a Sweeney type with 3" D fitter embossed "CD" on fitter, a Fowler chimney with a 2 1/4" D fitter and patent information, a Clifford's burner type with 2 1/4" D fitter, three flattened examples including one lightly marked "EBR" and reverse "DEC 1867" and with a 2 1/8" D fitter, remaining two with 1 7/8" and 2 3/8" D fitter; and two Schaeffer's Perfection burner type slip chimneys with a 3 5/8" and 4" D fitter, one example with a frosted band. Second half 19th century. 5 1/4" to 8 1/2" H.

Provenance: From the collection of Abigail and the late Edward Meyer of Plantsville, CT.

Condition

Perfection burner type undamaged, remaining examples with minor imperfections to fitters, patented flattened example with a large broken bubble.