2-part Parade Lantern

Object Name: 
2-part Parade Lantern

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Object Name: 
2-part Parade Lantern
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, New York City
Accession Number: 
93.4.102
Dimensions: 
H(handle upright): 44.2 cm, (handle down): 33.4 cm, D: 17.9 cm; (b) H: 8.6 cm, D: 10.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1860
Credit Line: 
Gift of Weston H. Jenkins
Primary Description: 
Red non-lead glass, brass; blown glass, hand-worked brass. Globular shade of deep red glass, engraved "ELMIRA WIDE AWAKES / G.L. SMITH / CAPTAIN"; burner is missing but cylindrical brass font snaps out; top is brass with piercing and brass handle.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Jenkins, Weston H., Source
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
red
Technique: 
blown glass, hand-worked brass
blown glass

Publications (1)

Notes: Glass Lantern, Research Shed Light on 1860 Political Group (1995) illustrated, pp. 140-141, fig. 1;