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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 59477, member: 44"]On reading mile's idea of a candle holder I initially thought was probably correct. At the last moment I did another Google search using the key words of Gnome oil lamp. Lo and behold up popped another one of your lamp stem and base! It appears to have the same stem attached to the same base as yours. It has a different font with a connector between the font and stem. The font is probably a Sandwich glass white & blue/gray cut double overlay quatrefoil. Nowwww for the bad news, the lamp is only a thumbnail. When enlarged/zoomed the pic is very distorted and hard to see the detail. Also it seems it was an auction on e-Bay that isn't there anymore. Even running several advanced eBay searches for it on completed and sold, I can't find the sale. The only info available is a brief description seen on the Google page.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Antique Overlay White blue/gray? Sandwich Glass Figural Gnome Base Oil Lamp Elf!"</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Antique+Overlay+White+blue/gray?+Sandwich+Glass+Figural+Gnome+Base+Oil+Lamp+Elf!&client=safari&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8otjVa6vLsOfggTf3YGIAQ&ved=0CDYQ7Ak&biw=1024&bih=729#imgrc=QxtivSxcRZFJaM%253A%3BdFQ5-kwB8k_y4M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fthumbs1.ebaystatic.com%252Fd%252Fl225%252Fm%252FmSgoqIEMWq1Q0892Ltci6xQ.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebay.tv%252Fsch%252Fi.html%253F_sacat%253D0%2526_sop%253D3%2526_nkw%253Doverlay%252Boil%252Blamp%2526_frs%253D1%3B140%3B225" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Antique+Overlay+White+blue/gray?+Sandwich+Glass+Figural+Gnome+Base+Oil+Lamp+Elf!&client=safari&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8otjVa6vLsOfggTf3YGIAQ&ved=0CDYQ7Ak&biw=1024&bih=729#imgrc=QxtivSxcRZFJaM%253A%3BdFQ5-kwB8k_y4M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fthumbs1.ebaystatic.com%252Fd%252Fl225%252Fm%252FmSgoqIEMWq1Q0892Ltci6xQ.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebay.tv%252Fsch%252Fi.html%253F_sacat%253D0%2526_sop%253D3%2526_nkw%253Doverlay%252Boil%252Blamp%2526_frs%253D1%3B140%3B225" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=Antique+Overlay+White+blue/gray?+Sandwich+Glass+Figural+Gnome+Base+Oil+Lamp+Elf!&client=safari&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8otjVa6vLsOfggTf3YGIAQ&ved=0CDYQ7Ak&biw=1024&bih=729#imgrc=QxtivSxcRZFJaM%3A;dFQ5-kwB8k_y4M;http%3A%2F%2Fthumbs1.ebaystatic.com%2Fd%2Fl225%2Fm%2FmSgoqIEMWq1Q0892Ltci6xQ.jpg;http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.tv%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_sop%3D3%26_nkw%3Doverlay%2Boil%2Blamp%26_frs%3D1;140;225</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I worked on enlarging the thumbnail with little improvement. The attempted edited version of that thumbnail is at the end of this message. Now there is no evidence the Sandwich font is original to that other lamp; however, it looks more appropriate in style, etc… than the font on yours. Barlow and Kaiser's <i>The Glass Industry in Sandwich</i>, Volume 2, pp. 209-210, etc… pictures several of those quatrefoil fonts. This book shows several of Sandwich fonts on figural lamps, but the lamps metal stems and bases were manufactured by several lamp companies like Dietz. Boston & Sandwich only did glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have now looked though my oil lamp catalogs like for Bradley & Hubbard, Dietz, Ives, Miller, etc… with no luck spotting this particular stem. Soooo, at the moment I believe your stem and base are original to each other and were of an oil lamp. If the stem is spelter then it would date from c1860s-1880 - possibly the earlier part of that time frame. If the stem is cast iron, it would date c1850-1860s. I'm just not sure what time frame to put on the font. As it is a peg font it may date from the same time frame of the mid 1800s??</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]15246[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 59477, member: 44"]On reading mile's idea of a candle holder I initially thought was probably correct. At the last moment I did another Google search using the key words of Gnome oil lamp. Lo and behold up popped another one of your lamp stem and base! It appears to have the same stem attached to the same base as yours. It has a different font with a connector between the font and stem. The font is probably a Sandwich glass white & blue/gray cut double overlay quatrefoil. Nowwww for the bad news, the lamp is only a thumbnail. When enlarged/zoomed the pic is very distorted and hard to see the detail. Also it seems it was an auction on e-Bay that isn't there anymore. Even running several advanced eBay searches for it on completed and sold, I can't find the sale. The only info available is a brief description seen on the Google page. "Antique Overlay White blue/gray? Sandwich Glass Figural Gnome Base Oil Lamp Elf!" [URL]https://www.google.com/search?q=Antique+Overlay+White+blue/gray?+Sandwich+Glass+Figural+Gnome+Base+Oil+Lamp+Elf!&client=safari&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8otjVa6vLsOfggTf3YGIAQ&ved=0CDYQ7Ak&biw=1024&bih=729#imgrc=QxtivSxcRZFJaM%253A%3BdFQ5-kwB8k_y4M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fthumbs1.ebaystatic.com%252Fd%252Fl225%252Fm%252FmSgoqIEMWq1Q0892Ltci6xQ.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebay.tv%252Fsch%252Fi.html%253F_sacat%253D0%2526_sop%253D3%2526_nkw%253Doverlay%252Boil%252Blamp%2526_frs%253D1%3B140%3B225[/URL] I worked on enlarging the thumbnail with little improvement. The attempted edited version of that thumbnail is at the end of this message. Now there is no evidence the Sandwich font is original to that other lamp; however, it looks more appropriate in style, etc… than the font on yours. Barlow and Kaiser's [I]The Glass Industry in Sandwich[/I], Volume 2, pp. 209-210, etc… pictures several of those quatrefoil fonts. This book shows several of Sandwich fonts on figural lamps, but the lamps metal stems and bases were manufactured by several lamp companies like Dietz. Boston & Sandwich only did glass. I have now looked though my oil lamp catalogs like for Bradley & Hubbard, Dietz, Ives, Miller, etc… with no luck spotting this particular stem. Soooo, at the moment I believe your stem and base are original to each other and were of an oil lamp. If the stem is spelter then it would date from c1860s-1880 - possibly the earlier part of that time frame. If the stem is cast iron, it would date c1850-1860s. I'm just not sure what time frame to put on the font. As it is a peg font it may date from the same time frame of the mid 1800s?? --- Susan [ATTACH=full]15246[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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