Part of a collection of lamps collected by J.W. Johnston. This lamp “presented by Mrs. Dale – April 1918” according to the original catalogue of the lamps, but 1918 is probably a typo for 1908 as two other Nigerian lamps are recorded as being given by Mrs. Dale in 1908 and all the other dates around that entry are 1908.
It is not recorded where Mrs. Dale presented the lamp to Johnston. Johnston spent most of his time in London and visited Aberdeenshire yearly at the time.