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Cobalt Skater's Oil Lamp
Estimate:
CA$200 - CA$300
Sold
CA$425
Live Auction
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Size
Globe: 4.25" H x 2.5" W
Category
Description
Skater's lanterns were popular among ice skating children during the Victorian era. They were manufactured with a large variety of globe colours to make it easy to differentiate them from their peers' lanterns rinkside. Features a medium-light cobalt blue globe. Heat cap marked, "Jewel". Globe stamped, "4". Globe exhibits three shallow chips to the factory ground upper edge. Frame exhibits uniform oxidation. American. Globe: 4.25" H x 2.5" W. CODE-OILL