Lot 135: HOBBS CORAL REEF / SEAWEED SQUAT STAND LAMP

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Description: HOBBS CORAL REEF / SEAWEED SQUAT STAND LAMP, Sapphire opalescent/blue opalescent font, colorless beehive stem and ribbed base, No. 2 Fluted collar. Fitted with a period No. 2 slip burner and matching-pattern sapphire opalescent/blue opalescent chimney-shade. Hobbs, Brockunier & Co. and Beaumont Glass Co.

Condition Report: Excellent condition, font with several manufacturing flaws including an approximate 5" diagonal striation of tiny bubbles, exterior of foot with a small shallow chip to a rib and three other ribs each with a minor flake. Chimney-shade with a minute flake to top and each rim with normal mold roughness, as made, burner undamaged.

Provenance: From the collection of the late Dorothy J. Gooch.

Dimensions: 17 1/4" H to top of chimney-shade, 8 1/4" H to top of collar, 4 3/4" SQ base.

Literature: Parallels Thuro II, p. 104a. Parallels Hobbs, p. 141, bottom.

Date: Late 19th/early 20th century.

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