A most attractive Late 19th Century Antique English Victorian Oil Lamp, the striped pink and white vaseline glass font mounted upon a finely drawn fluted Corinthian column which rises from a heavy stepped square brass base. The font collar stamped, MESSENGER'S PATENT., for the Makers, Samuel S. Messenger and Sons, established in Birmingham prior to 1835. Good, clean burner, the wick winder buttons each inset with a rosette. The whole ensemble topped off with a delicately patterned and frilled pink shade of the period. Replacement clear glass chimney, as one would expect. A first class item for the imaginative Interior Decorator.
Height to top of shade ~ 67.30 cm. / 26.50 inches ~ Height to top of chimney ~ 77.00 cm. / 30.32 inches ~Diameter of font ~ 15.80 cm. / 6.25 inches ~ Diameter of shade ~ 23.50 cm. / 9.25 inches ~ Year ~ Lamp and shade ~ Circa 1875 ~ Chimney ~ 20th Century
N.B. :- Our Antique Oil Lamps are offered for sale purely as decorative objects, are normally suppled without wicks, and no guarantees are offered as to their utility regarding their original purpose.
