"Summer Girl" No. 1 Lamp Stove
Object Details
- Description
- Single-burner, tabletop kerosene or oil stove having a tapered rectangular fount, an oblong rectangular burner with integrally cast handle and wick tube containing one long wick, and an inverted tapered chimney with one rectangular window topped by a fixed rectangular grate. Red and gold product decal "SUMMER GIRL" on one side of fount. Burner screws onto fount, while chimney hooks onto one long side of burner and is secured by a spring latch or clasp on the other. Fount top has a filling spout with fluted cover at one corner and is cast with product size and name, patent date, and possibly the foundry's trademark.
- John De Mooy Jr. and William H. Clemes, assignors to Taylor & Boggis Foundry, all of Cleveland, OH, received U.S. Patent No. 511,737 on December 26, 1893. Taylor & Boggis ("T & B") was in operation from 1868-2012; its factory wasbeing redeveloped into a sustainable fish farm and urban arts complex (as of September 2015).
- Lamp stoves such as this have been identified for being used to heat irons during the summer months, but were, in reailty, a portable multipurpose appliance used for cooking, heating and lighting in houses, at camps and elsewhere.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Estate of Knowlton K. Boyce (through Ransom K. Boyce)
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1893
- DELETE
- patent date
- 1893-12-26
- ID Number
- 1979.0677.01
- accession number
- 1979.0677
- catalog number
- 1979.0677.01
- Object Name
- lamp stove
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (grate, burner, fount material)
- brass (spring clasp, fount cover material)
- mica (window material)
- cotton (wick material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 7/8 in x 6 5/8 in x 4 5/8 in; 22.5425 cm x 16.8275 cm x 11.7475 cm
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Cleveland
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Subject
- Household Tools and Equipment
- Cooking
- Heating
- Lighting
- Laundry
- Patented
- Record ID
- nmah_319201
