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Title: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 22, 2011, 06:01:39 PM

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?

Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: Leni on October 23, 2011, 09:27:12 AM

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!   ;D   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: 

Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 23, 2011, 12:47:34 PM

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

Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: flying free on October 23, 2011, 03:16:33 PM

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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Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 24, 2011, 07:43:56 PM

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.

Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: dirk. on October 24, 2011, 08:31:44 PM

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

Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 24, 2011, 09:10:57 PM

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

Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: dirk. on October 25, 2011, 04:41:11 AM

I´m over-worked.   ;D :pb:

Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: angel2 on October 25, 2011, 08:39:28 AM

 :angel: :angel:

I like it a lot!   :D

angel2

Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: obscurities on October 25, 2011, 01:04:41 PM

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

Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 25, 2011, 01:31:41 PM

 :o

ooooooh! It's wonderful, but I wouldn't have thought Kralik, not that I know enough to be able to id it.
I'm afraid I sort of associate those feet with being new-ish-y - I see a lot of not so wonderfull things with them on in charity shops....
But this is a glorious thing - well done K!  :smg:

Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: angel2 on October 25, 2011, 02:57:32 PM

 :angel: :angel:

There were lots of items made with those curly feet in the 30s but from what Christine said, she knows that very well.    :girlcheer:

angel2

Title: Re: Uranium and opal lamp base
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 25, 2011, 05:44:23 PM

Wonderful, thanks Craig. I'll email the pix