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Offline Tigerchips

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Cut glass/metal lamp base
« on: January 03, 2008, 08:26:21 PM »
Does anyone know who made this and where it might come from?


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Re: Cut glass/metal lamp base
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2008, 08:46:47 PM »
I assume it's an oil lamp font and that there isn't a hole right through the glass.
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Re: Cut glass/metal lamp base
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2008, 08:57:42 PM »
No holes except the one on top. I think the metal part has been painted gold but it has lost it's colour throughout the years. It has numbers moulded on the bottom of the base '4847'.

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Re: Cut glass/metal lamp base
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2008, 09:21:16 PM »
It's an oil lamp base. I would say it was probably bronzed and maybe Art Nouveau/Deco rather than Victorian. The crystal Victorian oil lamps in Silber and Fleming are much more traditionally cut. French perhaps - Fleur de Lys?
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