Looking for Info on Irish Oil Lamp [INDEX: Unknown Manafacturer]
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Looking for Info on Irish Oil Lamp - Updated [INDEX: Unknown Manafacturer]
by Sarah (GSDnRRfan@aol.com)
Posted: August 07, 1998 @ 03:07.
I have inherited a Parlor or "Gone With The Wind" oil lamp and would
like as much information as I can find about it. The base measures 11
3/4" tall, and has 3 feet, plus 3 vase supports that are in the shape
of dragons/gargoyles. The globe measures 8" in diameter, and as well
as I can tell, it is of pink and white opaque glass that is
sandwiched together (white on the inside, pink on the outside of the
globe). On the globe is a silk-screened scene (windmill, farmer/ox,
landscape, trees, etc...) that repeats four times around the globe,
in black ink. The burner is double-wicked, and the mark on each of
the burner knobs is a shield with the letters: B E & S. The marking
on the bottom of the stand reads (lines separated by commas): T, E.R.
Moore & Co., 86 Grafton SI, Dublin, 209. My questions: Any ideas on
metal the base is made of (is it silverplate?), age of manufacture,
number produced, and/or current value? Thank you!! (I may be able to
get a photo of it within the next week.)
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On August 10, 1998 @ 09:55, Fil Graff, Guild Secretary (fgraff@comcast.net) wrote:
Sarah: Going to have to leave an answer to this to our British
cousins! John? Nigel? Mike? Think this one falls on your side of the
"net"! :: Fil Graff
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On August 13, 1998 @ 12:14, John in England (lightinter@aol.com) wrote:
Here again, any of the mass lamp producers would put on whatever name
desired if enough were bought - I believe Moores on Grafton Street,
Dublin were ironmongers. The burners could have been made by anyone
after Hinks' 1865 patent expired. Some excellent duplex burners were
made in Germany (Swinker & Graff) (Wild und Wessel etc) and that
again is a possibility for its origin - Germany supplied a lot of
lamps to Ireland before the first and between the two world wars. Not
much help Sarah, but I've tried. John in
England.