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nursery lamps


Identification code: 300180509



Alternative term/s

  • lamps, nurse
  • lamps, nursery
  • nurse lamps
  • nursery lamp

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Scope note:

Devices that are a combination of a dark lantern, night light, heater for food, milk, or shaving water, candleholder (in handle), and tinder box, usually made of tinned sheet iron. Based on a patented design of William Howe of Boston, 1812. Use also for earlier European examples partially or wholly of ceramic.

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