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Message:: [QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 187990, member: 44"]Hmmmm.... I don't think the "lid" and the body/base of the lamp is of the same lamp. The design is not anywhere near the same. The base seems to be of a fruit and floral design while the top "lid" has a scroll medallion design. Boy, I hadn't noticed that before. With it stripped, the design differences really stand out. That is probably why it was spray painted. The base of this lamp would be called spelter. Zinc is the main component of spelter. Spelter was used for many oil lamps especially for figural oil lamps. The spelter was then painted silver, bronze, black or whatever. Following is an example of a stripped down spelter figural lamp, a spelter figural lamp with remnants of the bronze coating, and a spelter lamp painted black. Spelter cast lamps made it much easier to do detail work. --- Susan Showing good deal of spelter with a bit of the bronze remaining:[ATTACH=full]52878[/ATTACH] Remnants of bronze coating on spelter stem:[ATTACH=full]52879[/ATTACH] Spelter lamp stem painted black:[ATTACH=full]52880[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]