OIL LAMP: The glass font on this whale-oil lamp was made of colorless glass covered with ruby glass


August 26, 2003 at 12:00a.m.


OIL LAMP: The glass font on this whale-oil lamp was made of colorless glass covered with ruby glass overlay cut into a design. The 101/2-inch lamp, made in New England, sold for $1,870 this summer at Green Valley Auctions, Mount Crawford, Va.