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Oil Lamps255 of 875#2 Unmarked Brass Oil Lamp Converted To ElectricityCirca 1906 Safeguard Lamp
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    Posted 7 years ago

    foxfirerod…
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    Can anyone please help me ID this brass, unmarked, antique, oil lamp which has been converted to electricity quite some time ago? The shade is cloth lined, (falling apart), and is made out of brass too. Many thanks for any information that anyone would like to share.

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    1. Celiene Celiene, 7 years ago
      Incredible shade (silk lined) Weird base.
    2. Celiene Celiene, 7 years ago
      Hm - here's a good place to start. Here's a somewhat similar shade. Also put it in lamps.

      http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-SAMUEL-L-DINKELSPIEL-HEAVY-BRASS-3-LIGHT-TABLE-LAMP-FLORAL-LAMP-SHADE-/311484316026
    3. Celiene Celiene, 7 years ago
      And another somewhat similar.

      https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/lighting/table-lamps/antique-gilt-metal-lamp-pierced-shade-edward-miller/id-f_1045046/
    4. foxfirerodandgun, 7 years ago
      Thank you. The shade is very dusty from sitting in a garage for quite a long time. My wife plans to gently clean it up a bit this weekend. I am very curious as to its origin and approximate age.
    5. Celiene Celiene, 7 years ago
      Take a picture of the base where we can see it. It's like that second bottom is added on. What happened to the oil well?
    6. foxfirerodandgun, 7 years ago
      The oil well sits inside of the base. I'll try to post a picture of it tomorrow.
    7. LOUMANAL LOUMANAL, 7 years ago
      If you had the font holder with this lamp font, you could probably identify it but like this, it's going to be very difficult. Edward Miller did make metal oil lamps in Brass. RER
    8. Celiene Celiene, 7 years ago
      You can post a second post with an additional 4 pictures. Is the shade stamped? I mean the decoration Is It a stamped decoration?
    9. foxfirerodandgun, 7 years ago
      OK, I'm not very knowledgeable about oil lamps so I don't know what a font holder, or lamp font, really is. Could you enlighten me a bit? I have found life to be a continuing learning experience. Thanks.
    10. foxfirerodandgun, 7 years ago
      Possibly. It definitely isn't a casting.
    11. Celiene Celiene, 7 years ago
      Font is the proper name for what I called the oil well.
    12. LOUMANAL LOUMANAL, 7 years ago
      The font holder would be the "vase" part that the oil holding font would sit in. The ribbed part in the pictures would sit in and overlap the decorated vase holder.
    13. foxfirerodandgun, 7 years ago
      Thank you for explaining what the font & font holders are. The font seems to be an exact fit for the font holder and seems to match the font holder in outward appearance. I will start another post with additional pictures.
    14. PhilDMorris PhilDMorris, 7 years ago
      The shade is the valuable part and looks added on and not original to a kerosene lamp, it looks 1920's, art deco.
    15. foxfirerodandgun, 7 years ago
      It could be. I added a picture of the underside of the shade holder. Looks as if someone has soldered the ring onto the supporting wires.

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