CIRCA 1900 RAYO JUNIOR SIZE FANCY BRASS KEROSENE OIL CENTER DRAFT TABLE LAMP. Circa 1900 fancy brass junior Rayo center draft kerosene oil table lamp. Wonderful condition period unburned lamp, signed'RAYO JUNIOR' on the filler cap.
Period lamp, gently electrified at some recent point. There is a candelabra socket taped to the top of the center draft tube, the electric cord exits the lamp through one of the decorative piercings on the foot; the lamp is not drilled or cut in any way.The burner is in working condition with intact wick chase and wick riser. Correct and period 7" Rayo shade holder, the lamp is 10" tall to the top of the shade holder. Outstanding condition period'Junior Rayo' to add to your collection.
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another]... Till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery...
And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. No people will tamely surrender their liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Lamps, Lighting\Lamps".
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