Lantern
date: label: Date
content: 1860
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: (A) Ovoid clear glass shade cemented to pierced tin top and bottom. (B) oil lamp with brass cap, cylindrical and fitted at sides with flat brass springs. (C) curved shapped plate with colored webbing strap, to carry (A) and (B) against the rounded middle portin of a railway train conductor. Oval brass plate attached to (C) reads: "S.J. SHAW / & / H.J. BATCHELDER. / PATENTED FEB. 28 1860 / MANUF'D BY / S.J SHAW & CO / MARLBORO, MASS."
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair in memory of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-98-19-a/c
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Lantern
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Tin, brass, glass, cotton webbing
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 21 x 9.5 x 27 cm (8 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)