Flashlight from Uncle Leon, Dummer, New Hampshire

Given to me in the 1960s by my Great-uncle Leon Griffin.
He called it a kerosene flashlight.

It gave a feeble light with kerosene. The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts labeled a similar one they have on display a "Whale Oil Lamp from about 1850."

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