Crooked Blade Knife with Heart Motif Carved Handle, America,
19th century, curved, carved maple handle with pierced integral carved
concentric hearts, the surface covered with small stamped circle
pattern, steel blade held with brass ferrule including stand, lg. approx.
10 1/2 in.
$600-800
Crooked Blade Knife with Carved Handle, America, 19th century,
curved, carved maple handle with pierced square terminal with faceted
top, and chip-carved borders continuing to leather cover and steel
blade, including stand, lg. approx. 12 1/2 in.
$1,500-2,500
Red-painted Tin Candle Lantern, America, early 19th century,
half-round lantern with flat hinged glazed door, handle on the back,
decorative piercing on peaked chimney with ring handle, ht. 15 1/4 in.
$300-500
Green and Mustard-painted Tin Fluid Burning Lamp, third quarter
19th century, removable conical shade over lamp stand with handle,
saucer base, and well on shaft supporting a molded colorless glass
sparking lamp with a threaded pewter single tube camphene burner
with cap, (scattered paint losses), overall ht. 10 3/4 in.
$400-600
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Engraved Wrought Iron Candle Snuffer with Carved Snake Handle,
late 18th/early 19th century, carved mahogany pistol-shaped handle
with a snake head fitted with bone eyes consuming a leaf; the spring-
activated snuffer with wick trimmer and lobed box to collect the wick
debris with engraved floral and foliate devices and a wick pick at the tip,
lg. 8 1/4 in.
$800-1,20099.
Tin, Sheet Iron, and Glass Reflective Candle Sconce, America, 19th
century, the round glazed reflector fitted with several embossed round
tin reflector plates, the iron candle cup supporting a blown-molded
colorless glass peg lamp with threaded pewter and brass camphene
burners with caps, ht. 9 7/8 in.
$1,200-1,800100.
Green-painted Tin Rumford Lamp, probably England, early 19th
century, with hinged conical tin shade over an oval Cardon-type font,
columnar shaft, and square, weighted base, (minor paint losses), ht. 12
7/8 in.
$1,000-1,500101.
Iron and Brass Betty Lamp on a Turned and Painted Wood Stand,
the lamp attributed to Jacob Long, Rapho Township, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, mid-19th century, the lamp top and bottom
riveted to sides, with half bail with linked wick pick and hanging spike,
the brass swivel plate with cock finial opens to fill well, the spout with
wick support, ht. 4 1/2, dia. 4 1/4; supported on a turned wood stand
painted brown over earlier blue and red, ht. 6 5/8 in.Literature: A similar Betty lamp signed by Long is pictured in The
Pennsylvania German Collection: Handbooks in American Art,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982, color plate xvii and p. 119, plate 53.
$800-1,20036 additional information and photos at http://www.skinnerinc.com
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