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These are my two favorite oil lamps. I doubt either of them are worth much of anything. The tall clear one was given to my parents by my grandparents around the late forties. I don't know if it was new at the time or if it had already been around for a while. The little one with the blue base and cut glass globe was an antique store find about twenty years ago. Molded into the glass on the bottom of the base it says made in Hong Kong. Oh well, valuable or not I like them.
Oil LampsAn oil lamp is any vessel that holds oil and an absorbent wick and produces…