JULIUS C. IVES BRASS KEROSENE HANGING LAMP, simple chains support a four-prong adjustable Ives shade holder with patent information on one arm and a circular ring font holder, arched crescent with stars chain pulley mechanism terminating in a ring, alabaster/clambroth Tucker-type pyriform font, No. 2 fine-line collar. Fitted with a period setup comprising a correct No. 2 Julius Ives & Co. lip burner lacking hinge for deflector and base, opal cone-form shade with medial green band and floral polychrome and gilt decoration, stamped brass smoke bell, eight panel-cut prisms. Non-period No. 2 lip chimney. Shade probably Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. Circa 1872. 32 1/2" HOA, 14" WOA. Font 3 3/8" H to top of collar 3" D base. Shade 5 1/4 H, 13 7/8" D base.
Excellent condition, frame and font undamaged. Burner with a replaced set-screw, shade undamaged with very minute wear to decoration and normal roughness to upper rim, several prisms with expected flakes/roughness. Chimney undamaged.
Literature: Frame and font parallel Thuro - Oil Lamps III, p. 189.
Provenance: Property of Bill and Karen Webb.

Excellent condition, frame and font undamaged. Burner with a replaced set-screw, shade undamaged with very minute wear to decoration and normal roughness to upper rim, several prisms with expected flakes/roughness. Chimney undamaged.