
Gas lamp with shade
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gas lamp?and hand painted shade.
by amy (amy442@hotmail.com)
Posted: October 07, 1998 @ 19:31.
I do hope I am asking this question in the right forum.I have A table
lamp that belonged to my grandmother.The base has a fitting for
aparently some type of gas connection and is made of metal.The shade
is of glass with a scene painted all the way around the inside.I am
wondering what kind of lamp this is and also the shade. There were
two of them but the larger was destroyed in A fire.They were
converted to electricity some years ago.My grandmother inherited them
from her deceased husband who said they were his mothers.He knew
nothing about them other than that they were pretty.His family came
from the Pennsilvania,West virginia area if that helps any.If I can
just find out what kind of lamp and shade this is, i'm sure I can do
the rest of the research myself.Thank you ! Amy p.s please e mail me
as I am not shure I can find this site again.That is if this is where
?s are usualy answered.? Thanks
again.
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On October 07, 1998 @ 23:21, Fil Graff, Guild Secretary (fgraff@comcast.net) wrote:
Amy: With a fitter on the base (like the ones the bunsen burner was
connected to in high school chemistry lab?), it sounds like it was/is
a gas table lamp. The gas pipe (rubber tubing covered with fabric,
usually) came down from a ceiling fixture, and because it was
flexible, allowed the lamp to be moved about on the table. These
lamps usually had a mantle (rigid like an Aladdin mantle) and gave 60
to 100 candle power. If the lamp was electrified, the gas burner was
likely destroyed in the process. Reverse-painted shades weren't
common on these lamps, so the shade may have come from another lamp
when Grandpa electrified it. Gas table lamps usually had a
"petticoat" shade, or "half shade", supported by a frame around the
burner that also held the chimney, and could support a small under
shade. The bases wern't usually big enough to support a big reverse
painted lamp shade.
There were lots of companies that made these
lamps. The best know was Welsbach. If there is any of the original
burner left, you might find a marking on it indicating who made the
lamp. They are rather difficult to identify if the burner is gone, as
the stems looked pretty much the same; there aren't many surviving
catalogues to look them up, either. Hope this helps some, anyway. Our
site address (and Bookmark it, if you plan to return here) is <
> . ;; Fil Graff
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