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Brass lamp; cast; circular handle with a shield or guard in the form of an equal-armed cross with a pair of blobs on the end of each arm, back supported by a vertical element attached to the rear of the handle; hinged scallop-shell lid with concave underside (separately numbered as 98937), held in place by corroded iron pin; extended nozzle; originally on a pricket stand hence square hole in roughly ovoid base and hollow spike rising inside the bowl.
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