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Looking for Info on Irish Oil Lamp [INDEX: Unknown Manafacturer]

Looking for Info on Irish Oil Lamp - Updated [INDEX: Unknown Manafacturer] by Sarah
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.)

On August 10, 1998 @ 09:55, Fil Graff, Guild Secretary 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 ::
On August 13, 1998 @ 12:14, John in England 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.