Name/TitleSingeing lamp
About this objectThis was used 70-80 years before donation, for singeing horse hair. The lamp is hollow, to contain paraffin, which is poured through a hole on one surface, stopped by a brass screw stopper. On the reverse surface, just below the wick, is a scraper with 30 teeth. See Hatrick's Catalogue, 1932, p. 21.
Date MadeCirca 1900
Medium and MaterialsMade of iron with a new cotton wick and with a brass screw stopper
MeasurementsLength: 280mm
Width: 105mm
Height: 12mm
Object Typelamp
Object numberSTMEA:A.4466
Copyright Licence
Attribution - Non-commercial (cc)
