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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 214663, member: 44"]I really didn't go into trying to date the 4 spout oil lamp. As you already know they were also called Lucerna lamps as well as Venetian lamps. I can't tell how old yours is. There are many reproductions out there. Following are links telling about them that you may have seen already.</p><p><a href="http://www.silvercollection.it/dictionaryoillamp.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.silvercollection.it/dictionaryoillamp.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.silvercollection.it/dictionaryoillamp.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The following is a link to a pdf file titled: "The Evolution of the Lamp" on the</p><p>Scroll down to page "10 of 34" to Fig. 40. Here is a pic of 3 of them. Page "14 of 34", 4th and 5th paragraphs, of the file tells a little about them starting with "Before taking up the rvolution of the oil lamp...."</p><p><a href="https://www.ies.org/PDF/100Papers/044.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ies.org/PDF/100Papers/044.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.ies.org/PDF/100Papers/044.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea of the country of origins.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 214663, member: 44"]I really didn't go into trying to date the 4 spout oil lamp. As you already know they were also called Lucerna lamps as well as Venetian lamps. I can't tell how old yours is. There are many reproductions out there. Following are links telling about them that you may have seen already. [URL]http://www.silvercollection.it/dictionaryoillamp.html[/URL] The following is a link to a pdf file titled: "The Evolution of the Lamp" on the Scroll down to page "10 of 34" to Fig. 40. Here is a pic of 3 of them. Page "14 of 34", 4th and 5th paragraphs, of the file tells a little about them starting with "Before taking up the rvolution of the oil lamp...." [URL]https://www.ies.org/PDF/100Papers/044.pdf[/URL] I have no idea of the country of origins. --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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