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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 27172, member: 44"]You're welcome. Please, tell me when you get it listed. I'd love to keep track of it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Many many of these spelter figurine lamps are listed with erroneous info. Most list them with the burner maker as the manufacturer. Very few burner manufacturer also made lamps. Nowww some lamp manufacturers did make burners for their lamps. These were usually central draft burner lamps that needed special fonts. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is an example now on eBay of an erroneous listed figurine lamp. The seller is saying the manufacturer is the burner maker. It has a 1950 to 1990 ABCO burner. Any ABCO marked burner is later than 1950. The seller is saying it is by American Brass Co. The lamp stem and bass with different font is pictured in Barlow & Kaiser's <i>The Glass Industry in Sandwich</i>, vol. 2, p. 218. The description says several of these were in the Russell & Irvin Manufacturing Co. 1865 catalog and in the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. catalog "thought to date from the mid-1860's." The info implies only the font was by Boston & Sandwich. What an attraction for this lamp sale if the seller could have added something like appeared in Boston and Sandwich catalogs of the 1860s.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Hand-Painted-Milk-Glass-Brass-Oil-Lamp-w-Spelter-Figure-Base-NICE-/171472051331?pt=Antiques_Decorative_Arts&hash=item27ec87dc83" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Hand-Painted-Milk-Glass-Brass-Oil-Lamp-w-Spelter-Figure-Base-NICE-/171472051331?pt=Antiques_Decorative_Arts&hash=item27ec87dc83" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Hand-Painted-Milk-Glass-Brass-Oil-Lamp-w-Spelter-Figure-Base-NICE-/171472051331?pt=Antiques_Decorative_Arts&hash=item27ec87dc83</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 27172, member: 44"]You're welcome. Please, tell me when you get it listed. I'd love to keep track of it. Many many of these spelter figurine lamps are listed with erroneous info. Most list them with the burner maker as the manufacturer. Very few burner manufacturer also made lamps. Nowww some lamp manufacturers did make burners for their lamps. These were usually central draft burner lamps that needed special fonts. There is an example now on eBay of an erroneous listed figurine lamp. The seller is saying the manufacturer is the burner maker. It has a 1950 to 1990 ABCO burner. Any ABCO marked burner is later than 1950. The seller is saying it is by American Brass Co. The lamp stem and bass with different font is pictured in Barlow & Kaiser's [I]The Glass Industry in Sandwich[/I], vol. 2, p. 218. The description says several of these were in the Russell & Irvin Manufacturing Co. 1865 catalog and in the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. catalog "thought to date from the mid-1860's." The info implies only the font was by Boston & Sandwich. What an attraction for this lamp sale if the seller could have added something like appeared in Boston and Sandwich catalogs of the 1860s. [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Hand-Painted-Milk-Glass-Brass-Oil-Lamp-w-Spelter-Figure-Base-NICE-/171472051331?pt=Antiques_Decorative_Arts&hash=item27ec87dc83[/url] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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