








OUTSTANDING 1880’S TINY. P&A’LITTLE ROYAL’ DOUBLE HANDLE FANCY NICKEL-OVER-BRASS KEROSENE OIL CENTER DRAFT TABLE LAMP. 1880’s fancy nickel-over-brass Plume & Atwood tiny size center draft kerosene oil table lamp. Period fancy nickel-over-brass double handled embossed lamp, complete and correct. Fancy cast white metal nickel plated arched handles. Fancy embossed font, original burner, flame spreader, filler cap, wick riser and wick chase are in working condition. Correct 6″ original spider shade holder, 7″ tall to the top of the burner. Never drilled or electrified, correct period kerosene oil condition. Rare tiny size, rare Cleveland filler cap. Pristine condition with no cracks breaks or repairs. Outstanding example period’Little Royal’ 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.
