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Decorating With Antique Lamps

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 | Author:

For several years, hurricane lamps were popular. With their large, blown-glass base, these lamps were popular before electricity, because their shape prevented the wind from extinguishing the flames from an oil or gas lit candle. Modern hurricane lamps are available to be used with votive lights, tower candles and even with real light bulbs. Shopping for a modern hurricane lamp is easy, and they look great with a beaded vintage lamp shade.


Some people choose to use antique lamps when they want to recreate or just remind themselves of Grandma’s house. Depending upon when you grew up, you might just want to pick up a set of those green or gold glass lamps. Popular from the 1940’s and 50’s when electricity was widely available, and technology was celebrated, these lamps have vibrant colors and patterns. You might want to take it to an electrician for a wiring update and a safety inspection. They can replace the bulb receptacle with an approved modern one and remove the old wiring in favor of newer wiring, without damaging the appearance of the lamp. Recreating special memories can be a safe and enjoyable way to relax.

Antique floor lamps are also beautiful, they can come in a stained glass style, like Tiffany lamp, or in one of many other styles. Reproductions are available, but are often made with different materials. Plastics and other composite materials that are widely available now were not available in the past and so you’re more likely to find metals, in a variety of finishes, rather than plastics. Lamp base styles were often of carved wood, metals, molded and hand-blown glass. Beaded Victorian lampshades go great with most antique lamps.

Whether you’ve chosen to go with an antique hurricane lamp, a vintage floor-standing Tiffany lamp, or a hanging lamp or even just vintage accent lamps, the distinctive styles of the old days will bring something special to your home. You can find antique lamps, reconditioned, from online vendors, you can also find reproductions. Keep your eyes open at Grandma’s house, in old pictures and at second hand stores, for just the perfect antique lamp for your home.

Author: Ellen Tayana

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Antique Lamps – The Latest Collecting Craze!

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Author:

Antique porcelain lamps can be oil lamps or electric lamps, simply depending on when they were made and for what market. Some of these antique lamps are oil burning lamps. The most commonly recognized antique oil lamps are built with a large globe on the bottom and a smaller globe on top. Most of these are very decorative, with both globes painted, usually with floral designs.


Electric antique porcelain lamps are typically of a table lamp style, but are still well known for having painted designs and patterns on one or both globes. There is a wide and varied assortment of antique lamps that can be purchased from ‘Net sites, antique stores, or even (sometimes) at yard or garage sales. These lamps may be oil or electric, plain or fancy, but are almost always high quality, as well as a lovely addition to a room or house.

One of the most enduringly popular of all of the types of antique lamps is the banker’s lamp. A bankers lamp is normally constructed of a brass post with a green or blue glass shade. Today, the green shades are most common in reproduction lamps, but the blue shades were as common in the original type.

Antique porch lamps, which are very popular with designers today, were originally used not on porches, but in carriages. Carriage lamps were mostly made of brass, wrought iron, or wood, and were mounted on the carriage doors or side walls. The sturdy construction and design of the carriage lamps makes them well suited to their modern use as porch lights. They are usually seen mounted on either side of a door.

The antique torchiere lamp, the antique brass floor lamp, and the antique art deco lamp are some of the more modern antique lamps that are still very popular today. Torchiere lamps are very useful and easy to place, because they provide indirect bright light to a room or area without the trouble of installing overhead fixtures. Most antique lamps are quite ornate and beautiful, since they were considered to be a design feature, not just an appliance.

Antique brass floor lamps are very popular, partly because they are well made and sturdy, and partly because they are plentiful on the market. Brass floor lamps typically require little in the way of renovation; a bit of polishing, modern wiring, and perhaps a shade are all that is needed.

The beautiful designs of Art Deco lamps make them very valuable, not only as antiques, but also for the intrinsic design value of that period. Art Deco lamps might be made from brass, copper, mica, stained glass, or other aesthetically pleasing (and somewhat atypical) materials.

Antique kerosene lamps are well liked, not only for their value as antiques, but also for their beauty and functionality. The most popular type of antique oil lamp (from the late 1800’s) is the student lamp.

These student lamps were available as both single and double burner models. They were widely used because they threw very little shadow which made them ideal for their intended purpose as a reading and study lamp.

Author: Hwang Keum-Ok

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Some lamps sold now are both the traditional farmer’s lantern, made mostly of metal, with a glass chimney, and the old-fashioned hurricane lamps, made mostly of glass.   Read more…

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Old Oil Lamps Information

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 | Author:

Attesting to the romantic and practical value of the necessary household item of not long ago, oil lamps new are available for about $15.00 and up.


When it comes to pleasant, quiet, or romantic settings, burning an oil lamp is akin to candles. Back when homes were lit with hanging oil lamps, you would probably never hear anyone calling them romantic. Antique oil lamps and hanging oil lamps are much safer than open flame candles. Antique oil lamps or either a hanging oil lamp, softens shadows and invites the eye. A romantic experience can be ultimately achieved by having a soft flickering flame and can be ruined by the opposite.

Antique oil lamps, a step up from lamps that use kerosene, uses a petroleum based oil. Kerosene lamps are more probable to create more soot and smoke. You do not necessarily need an expensive antique oil lamp, but might want to buy a fragrance oil lamp, which you can fill with scented lamp oil and maybe top with decorative oil lamp shades to enhance the romantic value.

Although you could still use a kerosene lamp, I suggest you be aware of the unpleasant odor and extra soot that a non antique oil lamp will not produce.

Oil lamp shades, the glass that sits on top of your oil lamp, must be cleaned carefully. I have used dry newspaper to clean off soot. Alternatively, for the more serious cleaning you can hand wash with dish detergent, warm water, and rinse with hot water.

Now, just a little info on how you should fill your oil lamp. First, remove the oil lamp shade and chimney. Then unscrew the burner completely and remove. Fill the oil bowl of your favorite antique oil lamp, to of the way, but never more than that. Now, place the burner back on the lamp and adjust the wick so that it is right above the top of the burner. When using a new wick, you want to let the wick sit in the lamp for 15 to 30 min to let the wick soak up the oil. Of course, you need to do this before you attempt to light the oil lamp.
After you have prepared your antique oil lamp, light the wick, replace your chimney, and oil lamp shade. If your lamp is smoking, no problem, just adjust the wick. Warning, never lower the wick of your oil lamp below the top of the oil lamp burners while it is burning, if the flame enters inside the oil bowl, it will probably result in an explosion. Which would ultimately ruin any romantic mood that there was.

For emergency lighting, antique oil lamps are the perfect and practical solution. The majority of oil lamps will keep you in light for hours and hours on just one fill, making them very reliable and inexpensive to use.

For the decorator, collector, historian, outdoors man, or the romantic; for parties on your patio and romantic dinners; lighting your path to a secluded cabin on the southern veranda, the practicality and romanticism of antique oil lamps cannot be beat.

By: Brandon L.

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