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Circa: early 1900's
Condition: restored antique
Color: green, cream, reds
Country of Origin: France
Manufacturer: unknown
This is a very impressive old hanging oil lamp. Not only is it very large, its globe style shade measuring 18 inches tall, this is also an absolutely breathtaking beauty of an oil lamp. The shade is heavy and very thick old textured glass with three huge clusters of grapes depicted as though still hanging ripe on the vines. The colors are intense and very appealing, but this old hanging oil lamp has more to it than just the beauty of its shade. This lamp is suspended and perfectly balance against the weight of the tiny tall oil lamp that can be pulled down out of the bottom of the shade, lit and then quite easily raised back up and into the shade where it remains hanging by the three brass chains it shares with the globe to which it was made to light.
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We had to do some replacement of parts to get this lovely old hanging oil lamp back to working condition and even substituted several unlikely parts to restore the oil lamp itself, but in the end I think you'll agree, this lamp just had to be fixed. It was simply too lovely Not to try.
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