This brass lantern is dated 1750 and is believed to have been handed down from generation to generation in the family of Fairbairn of Cockburnspath in East Lothian. It may have been used to warn vessels from the rocks at Cove in East Lothian.
The lantern has horn windows and is engraved 'P FAIRBAIRN COVE 1750'. There is a lighthouse and a sailing galley incised on each of the four partitions of the frame and a design of scallops and stars on the horizontal bands.
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