Mary Sajdak wrote:

Hello! I found your web site through Web Crawler web search of antique oil lamps.. I'm hoping that maybe you can help me.. My Mother is a collector of Oil lamps, old and new.. (She of course prefers the older ones.. :o) But she found 2 small oil lamps at an old "Junk store" a few days ago and is very curious as to how old they may be.. I've written down some of the information off of the boxs, (they are both the same) and am hoping by sending this to you that maybe you can tell me the approximate date of these lamps.. This is what the front of the boxes said:
"DREAM-LITE" Perfume lamp // Ideal for blackouts // Adjustable wick //
Actaully burns the liquid off and mildly perfumes your room. //
Distributed by NOVELL Fifth Avenue, New York
On the side of the boxes there's a fragrance (we believe that's what it's suppose to be) stamped there. we think it says either PL Blossom or PE Blossom (It's getting hard to see..) There was also number stamped on the top of the boxes (95-8327) but we aren't sure if this was put on there by the manufacturers or not.. My mother thinks that maybe the lamps were during the war because of the box saying "ideal for black outs".. (Being only 29 and not remembering and probably not paying near enough attention in History class, *laugh*, my Mother had to explain what the "black outs" were to me..) Anyways, I won't take up too much more of your time, (As you see I'm not very good at "Business like writing" *laugh*, but I do hope I've given you enough information and that maybe you can help us figure out the approximate age of these lamps..

Thank you very much ; Mary Sajdak