Victorian Parlor Copper Lamp

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This copper lamp has a lobster swimming across its gold leaf base. All the Hanlins thought the lamp beautiful and exotic, and were at a loss to explain the meaning of the lobster, which Hope likened to a giant roach. Neither the children nor Elizabeth had ever tasted lobster, and weren’t at all sure that they wanted to. Their father, Thomas, had eaten them on more than one occasion while traveling on business to the East Coast. Thomas insisted that lobster boiled in water and dipped in melted butter was one of God’s great gifts to a man’s tummy, but the children and Elizabeth remained unconvinced. Nevertheless, it was decided that the lamp might look fine indeed atop the cabinet in the study, and they were all absolutely sure that they would have the only lobster-lamp in the entire city of San Francisco.