- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Tin lamp. [MOBB [OPS move] 29/3/2017]
- Long description
- Tin lamp. Expanding cylindrical lamp with slightly rounded top and vertical projecting wick nozzle. The lamp is set atop a narrow cylindrical stem which itself is set within a flat circular dish with scalloped vertical rim. A handle attaches from the top of the vessel to the side of the dish. [MOBB [OPS move] 29/3/2017] Tin lamp made by Chinese people living in towns out of Kerosene (paraffin) containers. Used with paraffin as fuel. [?Chris Morton on 20.4.1998]
- Cultural groups
- Chinese
- Person
- Field collector Thomas Nelson Annandale
- Field collector Herbert Christopher Robinson
- Field collector Herbert Christopher Robinson expedition
- PRM source Thomas Nelson Annandale
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1901
- Date collected
- 1901
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1902
- Materials and processes
- Material Tin Metal, Process Recycled, Process Welded, Process Soldered, Process Rolled, Process Bent
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 103 mm, Height: max 130 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1902.88.469 Other numbers: 469 TS 20 [T S 20]
- Research and responses
Thomas Nelson Annandale and Herbert Christopher Robinson undertook an expedition to Perak and the [then] Siamese Malay states in 1901-1902, under the auspices of the Universities of Edinburgh and Liverpool. The results of this expedition were published in Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an Expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 1901-1902, published in London by Longmans, Green in four parts between 1903 and 1907. [SHD 17/5/2001]
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