Oil Lamp
Oil Lamp
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 ANTIQUE FRANCO GERMAN BICYCLE BIKE LAMP FLASHLIGHT OIL BATTERY COMBO LANTERN RA  US $1,500.00
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 Campaign Tripod Lamp 31 Oil Lamp Nautical Decor US $573.32
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 ANTIQUE HANDLAN SAINT LOUIS RAILROAD RR SWITCH OIL LANTERN LAMP COMPLETE RARE US $499.99
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 ANTIQUE KEROSENE LANTERN OIL LAMP PRIMUS 1081 SWIDEN BRASS 5 mentles free US $449.00
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 Brass Anchor Oil Lamp Lantern Outdoor Patio Deck Lights US $397.99
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 RARE UNIQUE ANTIQUE RAILROAD CABOOSE WALL OIL KEROSENE LAMP US $395.00
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 Savannah Pendant Lamp 6 Oil Lamp Nautical Decor NEW US $333.32
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 Antique ERIE Railroad Brass Coach Wall Oil Lamp Bracket US $329.00
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 Cairo Dome Lantern 26 Oil Lamp Gift NEW US $319.99
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 Antique Brass Anchor Oil Lantern 20 Nautical Lamp US $299.99
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 Adlake Railroad Oil Lamp Lantern Large Non Sweating Red Lense US $299.00
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 Antique RailRoad Oil Lamp Rare wall mounted type Plumb Atwood US $289.00
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 ANTIQUE ARMSPEAR MANUFACTURING CO 1905 RAILWAY OIL LAMP US $275.00
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 ANTIQUE GERMAN BICYCLE OIL LAMP LANTERN HEADLIGHT US $250.00
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 Railroad or Carriage Oil Signal Lamp 19th – Early 20th Century – Vintage Rare US $250.00 |
 Huge Oil Lamp Chimney Railway Locomotive Engine Headlight 165 Long 6 Diam US $249.99
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 ANTIQUE ARMSPEAR CO 1913 CO RY RAILROAD RAILWAY TRAIN RR OIL LANTERN LAMP US $249.99
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 Brass Anchor Electric Lantern 16 Oil Lamp Gift NEW US $229.99
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 East Indian Railway Rail Road Oil Lamp Made By Tin Some scratches On Lenszx677 US $225.00
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 Antique Brass Ship Anchor Oil Lantern 20 Oil Lamp US $219.99
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 1896 1914 Joseph Lucas Ltd Antique Bicycle Oil Lamp light N33 All Original US $200.00
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 Railroad Switch Lamp Oil Dressel 4 Lens Blue Green Red Arlington NJ US $200.00
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 ANTIQUE KEROSENE LANTERN OIL LAMP DEITZ collectible Deck lentern VINTAGE US $199.99
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 Antique Dietz Little Giant RR Railroad Train Oil Lantern Lamp 70 Hour Capacity US $199.95
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 VINTAGE ANTIQUE DIETZ BUCKEYE DASH RAILROAD RR OIL LANTERN LAMP COMPLETE US $199.00
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 ALADDIN NU TYPE MODEL B ANTIQUE OIL LAMP WITH SHADE CLEAR WITH BLACK STEM US $199.00
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Tiffany Lamps - Where It All Began
Tiffany lamps, well known for their colorful lead glass shades and bronze bases, originated in the New York studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Here, the son of the Charles Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co. jewelers, produced his lamps from the 1880s to 1924. After beginning his career as an interior designer for the wealthiest of New York society, he shifted his focus over the years to producing works of art on a smaller scale including his lamps, favrile glass, and later, jewelry.
Before 1890 Tiffany table lamps, chandeliers, and sconces were custom ordered for individual homes, buildings, and churches. They were assembled from a combination of commercially manufactured parts and those which Tiffany had made. These Tiffany lamps were fuel lamps which burned oil and were easily recongnized by their round glass bases.
Over the years, the lamps became more uniquely Tiffany works of art. He was able, with the opening of his Corona glass factory in 1892, to manufacture colored lead glass to his specifications. Tiffany’s lamps then began to take on the familiar nature themes and intense use of color seen in later years.
It was not until the introduction of electroliers that Tiffany Lamps finally assumed their familiar vertical shape as the round glass bases were replaced by vertical bronze. In Tiffanys 1898 catalogue many lamps were available in oil or electric. In addition many Tiffany hanging shades, lamps and wall scones were designed specifically for electricity.
By the end of the nineteenth century many of Tiffanys lamps had become more intricate in design. His bronze casting department created bases with leaves, feathers and wildlife. The colorful leaded glass shades particularly reflected Tiffany’s love for flowers, fauna, vines, trees and shrubs, and wetlands.
With the electric lighting now available from Thomas Edisons Pearl Street Power Station, the popularity of electric light quickly grew. Though some people resisted change, since for them gas lighting still held some romance. Poets wrote unfavorably about electric lighting and one critic said of Tiffany’s colorful wall sconces in New York’s Lyceum Theater, Who but Mr. Tiffany could have dribbled melted lead so frantically over pieces of parti-colored glass like those blue bulls eyes with electric light behind them?
However, progress was sweeping the country, and the marriage of leaded glass and electric light was already a sure thing. By 1899 half the Tiffany table lamps shown at the Grofton Galleries London exhibition were electric. Also at this time famous styles like the Tiffany Dragonfly, the Pond Lily, Butterfly, and Nautilus replaced the older, single piece favrile glass shades.
By 1903 the place of Tiffany Lamps in the new electric age, and in the world of art, had been assured. The Art Interchanges July issue showed pictures of the new Wisteria lamp, seen for the first time and commented, To the far-famed Tiffany ateliers of New York must the rest of the world come for what is rare and beautiful in the way of objects of every description to conduct electric light.
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