{"id":1471,"date":"2010-04-14T16:32:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T21:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2010-12-25T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T22:05:42","slug":"tin-grease-lamp-c-1820","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1471","title":{"rendered":"Lard oil lamp, c.1820"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This unusual early American lard oil lamp is made of tin and measures 14&#8243; tall<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3253.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1472\" title=\"IMG_3253\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3253.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3253-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A woven wick would have protruded from the tilted font at the right, keeping the wick immersed in oil<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3255.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1473\" title=\"IMG_3255\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3255.jpg 479w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3255-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The original tin base would have been much shorter than this wood replacement, made from a later electric lamp<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3256.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1474\" title=\"IMG_3256\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3256.jpg 373w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3256-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This lamp has its original base intact<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/knottypineantiques.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1484\" title=\"knottypineantiques\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/knottypineantiques.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottypineantiques.com\">Knotty Pine Antiques<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This unusual early American lard oil lamp is made of tin and measures 14&#8243; tall A woven wick would have protruded from the tilted font at the right, keeping the wick immersed in oil The original tin base would have been much shorter than this wood replacement, made from a later electric lamp This lamp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[62,12],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lamp","tag-american","tag-wood-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}