Sold for:
$385
$385
Two Gimbaled Ship's Lighting Devices and a Candle/Lantern Lighter, 19th century, a brass and glass candle sconce, with scrolled foliate brass wall mount supporting a gimbaled spring-activated push-up candle holder, with colorless glass globular shade; a pewter hand lamp with dish base, gimbaled font, and camphene burners; a brass and turned maple long-handled candle/lantern lighter, marked "HOUCHIN NO. 312" on the finial, ht. 12, 5, 31 1/2 in. The rim of the glass globe on sconce has been ground down; the burners on the fluid lamp have been resoldered onto thecap.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-03-06
