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the wick tube at this late date is unusual. Another, about the same 

 date, has a two-tube wick burner and the globe is protected by a 

 sturdy wire frame to withstand the strong buffets of sea work. The 

 lamp is removed by slightly turning the base, disengaging a spur pin 

 from a slide. The lantern was patented March 15, 1890, by Howard 

 and Morse, New York. Another lantern in the collection, not figured, 

 has a glass globe protected in a wire frame. Within the glass globe 

 is another of green glass. A flat-wick kerosene lamp supplied the 

 light. Patented May, 1877, by Cash and Baron. Cat. No. 325629, 

 East Coast; U. S. Fish Commission; 17.2 inches (44 cm.) high.) 

 There is some question whether this is the first signal lantern with 

 colored glass. Small lanterns for various employments are in num- 

 ber and many kinds, no doubt, have disappeared. An attractive 

 little lantern secured in Spain in 1892 is said to have been used as 

 a light in hunting for snails. It is an oil-burning lantern with 

 single tube, the top and sides glazed, the top resembling the louvre, 

 or chimney opening turret of old Spanish architecture. (PI. 28^, 

 fig. 1, Cat. No. 166990, Madrid, Spain; Walter Hough; 8.2 inches 

 (19 cm.) high. A tumbler converted into a small candle lantern 

 was made and sold in New England many years ago. These oddities 

 are seen in most illumination collections. (PL 286, fig. 3, Cat. No. 

 75384, New Bedford, Mass.; J. F. Brown; 8.2 inches (21 cm.) high.) 

 Lamps for vehicles are and were in endless variety. As a subject 

 for study lights connected with transportation offer a wide field. 

 The specimen shown is a japanned carriage lantern of 1850. The 

 lamp has one tube for heavy oil. There is a quadrille reflector at 

 the back and an anular reflector around the light. (PI. 28 &, fig. 4, 

 Cat. No. 325630, United States; Walter Hough; 8.2 inches (21 cm.) 

 high.) The small lantern,. Figure 2, is of the punched variety of 

 sheet iron and is for a single-tube lamp. It appears to be quite old. 

 (PI. 28a, Cat. No. 167069, Madrid, Spain; Walter Hough; 7.5 inches 

 (19 cm.) high.) So-called "Dark Jacks" or detectives' lanterns 

 may be introduced with a Korean dark lantern which consists of 

 a globular shell of basketry covered with paper decorated with 

 circular characters and with a circular opening. The handle is of 

 wood, turning on a wire leading to the interior, and from the end 

 of the wire hangs a candleholder mounted in a gimbel frame by 

 which the candle is erect, no matter in what position the lantern is 

 held. This is regarded as the height of ingenuity and is alleged to 

 have been invented long ago in Korea. (PI. 29fl^, fig. 2, Cat. No. 

 273018, Seoul, Korea; H. C. Whiting; 14 inches (35.5 cm.) diameter, 

 16.9 inches (43 cm.) high.) Filipino fishermen use a somewhat 

 similar lantern of calabash with a curved wood handle and rim 



