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PAIR OF BIGLER STAND LAMPS, translucent starch blue

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PAIR OF BIGLER STAND LAMPS, translucent starch blue with a lightly sanded surface, each featuring a dome-top conical font with a short extension joined by a wafer to a double-knop stem, octagonal baluster-form standard and square base, pewter fine-line collars and double-tube whale oil burners. One factory ground under base to level. New England, probably Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. or Mt. Washington Glass Works. 1840-1860. 10 1/8" high to top of collars, 3 1/8" square bases.
Reference: Elsholz, lot #539.
Parallels B & K II, fig. 2097b.
McKearin Am. Glass, pl. 198, fig. 14.
Provenance: The Duff & Molly Allen Collection. H. Richard Strand, 1/23/90

Remarkably proof except for a minute flake to one lower base edge, one collar poorly plastered and its burner is stuck in place with some minor marring

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