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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 68778, member: 44&quot;]Hi, Book!</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry I didn&#039;t add a reply when you posted this query. You may not have the lamp any more, but in case you do here is a little of what I think - emphasis on the think. I haven&#039;t had any luck finding a lamp like this in my references or online. As you know the burner is by Manhattan Brass. This hinge burner was patented by MB in July 1897 - patent #586346:</p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US586346" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.google.com/patents/US586346" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/patents/US586346</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The burner could have been mfg. anytime from 1897 to the early 1900s. The company liquidated in 1929. MB did make lamps and brass lamp supplies. They were noted for their student lamps.</p><p><a href="http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_companies_manhattan.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_companies_manhattan.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_companies_manhattan.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Because the burner is on this lamp doesn&#039;t necessarily mean the lamp was made by Manhattan Brass. Some other companies did use their supplies. Also the burner may not have been originally with this lamp. Nowwwww I think, this is purely speculation, the burner is original to lamp, but the lamp not necessarily made by MB. I found it very hard to find any lamps either online or in a reprinted MB 1887 catalog of theirs that wasn&#039;t a student lamp. I did find a couple of squatty brass lamps that the seller called Manhattan Brass lamps only because they had a MB burner. So again being purely speculative I doubt the lamp was mfg. by Manhattan Brass. Again remember I&#039;m speculating. I definitely would emphasis it has a patented 1897 Manhattan Brass Grand Hinge burner and let people take it from there. Here is one of those brass lamps with a MB Grand hinge burner. The lamp did sell.</p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-M-B-Company-Manhattan-Brass-Grand-Burner-kerosene-Oil-Lamp-/190929180322?nma=true&amp;si=%252F7vKWUJ4932E4vXXCHDoX1Wv%252F3I%253D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2557" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-M-B-Company-Manhattan-Brass-Grand-Burner-kerosene-Oil-Lamp-/190929180322?nma=true&amp;si=%252F7vKWUJ4932E4vXXCHDoX1Wv%252F3I%253D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2557" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-M-B-Company-Manhattan-Brass-Grand-Burner-kerosene-Oil-Lamp-/190929180322?nma=true&amp;si=%2F7vKWUJ4932E4vXXCHDoX1Wv%2F3I%3D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2557</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a Manhattan Brass Grand hinge burner that still has the patent date brass tab/label on it.</p><p><a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/kerosene-burner-m-b-co-n-y-grand-hinge-patent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/kerosene-burner-m-b-co-n-y-grand-hinge-patent" rel="nofollow">http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/kerosene-burner-m-b-co-n-y-grand-hinge-patent</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an all glass utilitarian lamp that dates probably from 1900 to c1930 that has a MB Grand Hinge burner. The seller said it has a patent date of July 1857 on the hinge. 1857 is definite in error for Manhattan Brass wasn&#039;t founded until 1865. They miss read that date. It probably says 1897. MB definitely did not make this lamp. The burner doesn&#039;t fix, screw into, the press-on collar well meaning it was not original to the lamp.</p><p><a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-oil-hurricane-lamp-manhattan-brass-grand" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-oil-hurricane-lamp-manhattan-brass-grand" rel="nofollow">http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-oil-hurricane-lamp-manhattan-brass-grand</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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