Topic: Uranium and opal lamp base

[Lustrousstone]

K found this in Blackpool (in a music shop with a windows of odds and ends that were not obviously for sale!!) and thought he had to bring it home. It appears to be a lamp base. The top is too narrow for it to be a converted oil lamp I think and it has been professionally drilled for flex. The green is uranium but the opal is not, so it's applied not heat struck. It 7 inches tall and not desperately well made. It has three curly feet. I've never seen anything like it before and can't find anything even similar online. Has anyone else come across such a thing?

[Leni]

Never seen anything like it before, don't know what it is, think you may be right with the lamp base theory.  But I love it and I think I would have thought I had to bring it home, too!      Well done K  :thup:

I'm intrigued to think about how the opalescence would have been applied!  Presumably in the mould it was blown into?  The little curly feet look Victorian in style - in fact the whole thing looks 'early', if you know what I mean!  A puzzler!   :huh: 

[Lustrousstone]

  I don't think its Victorian, though it nods in that direction. Those curly feet were used for quite a long time though.

[flying free]

Christine how wide is the opening at the top please?
I have a 'portable' oil lamp where the opening on the font is only about 2.6cm or so.  It has a brass fitting with a screw thread for the burner to attach to.
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[Lustrousstone]

The outside diameter of the glass is only 3cm, by the time you've got a brass fitting on there the inside diameter is going to be tiny.

[dirk.]

Lovely piece, Christine. 7" makes it a bit large for a vaporiser I suppose?  :huh:

[Lustrousstone]

and the perfume would run out through the hole in the back  :kissy:

[dirk.]

I´m over-worked.    :pb:

[angel2]

 :angel: :angel:

I like it a lot!   

angel2

[obscurities]

Nice lamp base....  Kralik.... Here is a similar bowl... different colors....  ca 1925.....

Great piece...  I love it!!

Have seen a couple of the bowls with block letter marks.....

May I use your pic??

Craig