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Victorian Lamps
About Antique Victorian Lamps
The Victorian style, encompassing all things elegant, shiny, and frivolous, was popular between the 1840s and the early 1900s. Victorian lighting ranged from ornate candelabras to oil lamps to early electric lamps. Among other things, Victorian era lamps are known for floral imagery, and for ornate lampshades with hanging tassels.
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Upcoming Events
- Elegantly Attired: Victorian Apparel and Accessories in Coastal Maine
Jan 14–Apr 25. Rockland, ME. - Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Feb 2–May 9. New York, NY. - Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection
Mar 5–Jun 5. Tampa, FL.
Interviews & Articles
An Interview With Antique Lamp Collector Dan Edminster
My grandparents were antique collectors all their lives, their whole house was furnished in antiques. They had a lo… [more]
An Interview With Victorian Furniture Collector John Werry
How did I get started collecting Victorian Furniture? Antiques is in my genes, my mother's family were longtime ant… [more]
An Interview With 1950s TV Lamp Collector Mark Stevens
What got me interested in TV lamps? I’ve always had an interest in the tackier artifacts of the 1950s and 60s. The… [more]
An Interview With Victorian Trade Card Collector Ben Crane
How did I start collecting Victorian trade cards? In the late 60s I was a bottle collector, early American bottles … [more]
An Interview With Victorian Greeting Card Collector Malcolm Warrington
Malcolm Warrington is based 12 miles to the west of Central London. He is a council member of the UK Ephemera Socie… [more]
Best of the Web (“Hall of Fame”)
Rare Victorian
John Werry's in-depth blog on rare Victorian Furniture, with detailed, informative and often humorous posts on doze… [read review or visit site]
Neustadt Tiffany Collection
This stunning gallery of 138 Tiffany lamps and lampshades, part of the Dr. Egon Neustadt Collection presented by th… [read review or visit site]
The Scrap Album
Attention paper collectors: don't miss Malcolm Warrington's exquisitely designed tribute to Victorian scraps (stamp… [read review or visit site]
The Lampworks
Lamp collector and dealer Dan Edminster has put together an incredible reference site on antique lamps and related … [read review or visit site]
Trade Card Place
Ben Crane's excellent reference site on Victorian trade cards. Includes a scrapbook containing hundreds of beautifu… [read review or visit site]
Classic Modern
Get a taste of how homes were lit in the 50s, 60s, and 70s with the Danish retro-style lighting designs featured on… [read review or visit site]
Stevengraphs Bookmarks and Postcards
Malcolm Roebuck's tribute to the ornate silk picture bookmarks and postcards ('Stevengraphs') produced by Thomas St… [read review or visit site]
Texans Incorporated: The History of a Lamp Company
Mark Stevens has created an impressive living memorial to Texans Inc., a 20th century Texas manufacturer of ceramic… [read review or visit site]
The Lamps of H. G. McFaddin
Bruce Bleier's tribute to the Emeralite and Bellova lampshades made from Czech glass and popularized and distribute… [read review or visit site]
Fairy Lamp Club
This incredible site is a stunning showcase for Victorian and contemporary fairy lamps, a style of lamp with a glas… [read review or visit site]
Gas Pressure Lanterns, Lamps and Stoves
Terry Marsh’s beautiful showcase of gas-pressure lanterns, lamps, stoves, irons, and heaters from the 1920s o… [read review or visit site]
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Clubs & Associations: Lamps
- The Rushlight Club
- Historical Lighting Society of Canada
- National Assoc. of Aladdin Lamp Collectors
- Aladdin Knights of the Mystic Light
Other Great Reference Sites: Lamps
- Victorian Trade Card Collection
- Dorons Lanterns Site
- The Art Deco Lamp Blog
- Aladdincollector.com
- TVlamps.net
- Fulper Lamp Gallery
- Lamptrader.com
- Edward Miller Kerosene Oil Lamps
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Recent News: Victorian Lamps
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Petersburg auto-body shop transformed into an urban loft
Richmond Times Dispatch, March 11th
The piece is made of an old faucet, a barbell weight, a pewter plate, a vase and a glass globe joined to resemble a fancy Victorian lamp...Read more
We will fight gas lamp plans
Malvern Gazette, February 25thMALVERN Wells Parish Council has vowed to fight the proposed withdrawal of funding for the town's famous gas lamps. At a meeting of the parish council last...Read more